2023 Summer Reading Challenge
June 1–September 2 | All KPL Locations | Children and Teens: We invite youth from birth up to 12th grade, to record reading progress on the summer reading game board available on June 1st in the summer issue of PRISM located at all KPL locations.
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First Saturday at the Alma Powell Library
June 3 | 11:30 am–2 pm | Powell | Family: Join us for the First Saturday of each month and enjoy fun for children and families at the Alma Powell Branch in KPL’s First Saturday collaboration with KCReady4s.
Friends Bookstore Bag of Books Sale
June 3 | 10 am–3:30 pm | Central Library Parking Lot | All Ages: The Friends biggest sale ever! Books are 25¢ each or $3 for a full bag.
Summer Adult Reading Challenge
June 1–August 31 | Open Hours | All Locations | Adult: It’s time for Summer Edition of the Adult Reading Challenge! Bookmarks with 10 reading prompts are available to pick up at any branch.
Creativebug Crafts for Adults – Create a Block-Printed Monogram
June 3 | 2 pm | Oshtemo | Adult: Create your own block-printed monogram or drawing using linocut tools and techniques!
News
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Reading Together Returns in 2024
Kalamazoo Public Library plans to resume its community reading program, Reading Together, in 2024, beginning with the official public suggestion…
Kanopy
You have been asking for it, here it is! KPL is proud to offer Kanopy to our patrons. Kanopy is…
Let Freedom Read!
The American Library Association condemns censorship and works to defend each person’s right to read under the First Amendment and…
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Embracing Forgiveness
Andrew Collins, a former Benton Harbor cop, falsified evidence in a case that sent Jameel McGee to prison for four…
Walking Through Time
Read Walking Through Time The Kalamazoo Historic Preservation Commission’s second publication was the result of a three-year citywide inventory and…
Globe Casket Company
“Among the most important enterprises of Kalamazoo is the Globe Casket Manufacturing Co., and it is probably no exaggeration to…
Whiskey Before Breakfast @ KPL
Music from the Celtic tradition including jigs, reels, hornpipes and all manner tunes and songs from Kalamazoo’s own Whiskey Before…
Kalamazoo House
Drawing of the Kalamazoo House “Earliest of Kalamazoo enterprises to experience a business boom were its hotels–institutions which became the…
Kalamazoo Lost & Found
Read Kalamazoo Lost & Found For its third publication, the Preservation Commission first considered reprinting Nineteenth-century Homes in a Midwestern…
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Literature Criticism Online
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Literary Reference Center
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