Full text articles, plus maps and pictures and TV and radio transcripts
Magazines, journals, newspapers, reference books, ebooks available in the library or at home with your KPL library card or with your Michigan Driver's License or ID by going to Mel.org
Includes Computer Database; Custom Newspapers; General Reference Center Gold; Grand Rapids Press; Expanded Academic ASAP; General Business File ASAP; Legal Trac; InfoTrac Onefile; Health Reference Center Academic ASAP
A collection of approximately 900 full text newspapers from around the country and the world. Includes the last 12 months of the New York Times and the Grand Rapids Press (1996-current).
Magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference books provided to Michigan libraries and Michigan residents at home with their Michigan Driver's License or ID or from libraries in Michigan. Also includes links to Michigan related websites.
Selected full text articles from the following Michigan newspapers: Detroit News, Grand Rapids Press, and Lansing State Journal.
Michigan eLibrary collection of ebooks.
All full text. The daily newspaper New York Times 1995-present.
Articles from the World Book Encyclopedia. Includes related articles from major newspapers and magazines. Graphic and multimedia enhancements, including photographs, maps, illustrations, tables, animations, and audio/video clips.
Community Resources
Phone 269-324-9987
Information about Michigan Mutual Consent Law; search assistance and referrals.
Phone 269-345-0725
Pregnancy tests; Ultrasound; HIV screening and peer advising; emotional and spiritual advising; maternity and baby clothing; post abortion peer counseling (Freedom Ministries); pre-natal classes; parenting classes; mentoring; Hannah's House maternity home; community referrals.
Phone 269-226-7000
Level I trauma center with services in 40 disciplines, specializing in cardiovascular services, neurosciences, vascular surgery, orthopedics, and women's services; comprehensive Mental Health Unit; Borgess Research Institute; spiritual and pastoral care visitation program; Physician Referral; Spine Institute; comprehensive library; speakers; residency training center for ten specialties in conjunction with Michigan State University/Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies.
Phone 269-341-7654
Major regional medical center providing inpatient and outpatient care. 380 beds in all-private rooms with a medical staff of 700 providing care in cardiology, orthopedics, surgery, emergency medicine, neurology, oncology, Level 1 Trauma and Burn Center, high risk pregnancy, and pediatrics.
Phone 269-349-3296
Provide information, options, and support to parents looking for child care; provide parents with referrals to area child care programs; provide information to people interested in starting a home or center child care program; provide training and support for child care providers in home and centers; provide information and support to employers regarding child care issues.
Phone 517-787-3500 ext. 0
Residential facility provides education, recreation, group and individual counseling and therapy; parent training; long term maternity program.
Phone 269-324-2662
Monthly meetings; newsletter; books; informational literature; family activities.
Phone 269-382-3640
Free child care for children ages 6 weeks-5 years.
Information about child development.
A resource for daycare and preschool information from Southwest Michigan Community Coordinated Child Care.
The Michigan Adoption Resource Exchange is an information and referral service for prospective adoptive parents interested in adopting children with "special needs” and for adoption workers looking for homes for these children.
Baby names, pregnancy, what to expect and other tips.
From the publishers of Parenting and Baby Talk.
Parenting Help - Free Tips, Advice, Resources & Guidance from Boy's Town.
Providing parents with child development knowledge and parenting support.