Fiction & Nonfiction

Book Club in a Bag

One stop shopping for your book discussion group! Check out a new Book Club in a Bag. In it you’ll find ten copies of a single title, ripe for a juicy discussion, an author bio, book reviews, reader’s guide, and discussion questions.

Call Outreach Services at 553-7809 or email bookclubbag@kpl.gov with any Book Club in a Bag question. Currently available titles listed here.

Guidelines

  • A Book Club in a Bag may be checked out for two calendar months to eligible Kalamazoo Public Library resident (not reciprocal) cardholders. No more than one bag at a time may be checked out to an individual. Bags cannot be renewed.

  • The person who checks out a Book Club in a Bag is financially responsible for returning the entire kit. Bags include a signup sheet to help borrowers keep track of the books!

  • Eligible cardholders may reserve Book Club in a Bag up to a year in advance of their book club discussion date. Bags must be checked out and returned to the Central Library, downtown. Call 553-7809 or email bookclubbag@kpl.gov to reserve or to arrange to pick up a Book Club in a Bag.

  • Please check the number of books before borrowing and before returning the bag to the library. Book clubs may keep the folder of materials when they return the books and bag.

  • Borrowers will be charged $5.00 a day for an overdue Book Club in a Bag or $1.00 a day for each missing book if a kit is returned incomplete.

  • Replacement cost of an entire Book Club in a Bag is $180.00. Replacement cost of individual parts of the bag will depend on the cost of each particular item.
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