Reading Together

After 20 years of attempting to build a stronger community with deeper connections through the common experience of reading the same book, engaging in dialogue with each other about the themes of that book, and coming together to see the author of the selected book at a local venue, Kalamazoo Public Library’s annual “one book one city” initiative is on hiatus. During the 2022–23 fiscal year, we will be reaching out to community residents for their feedback on the value and relevance of a program like Reading Together and on whether, in the interest of our strategic priority to provide library services for all in our diverse community, there may be things we can do to improve it. Thank you in advance for responding to upcoming surveys and/or for your participation in face-to-face focus groups to evaluate the Reading Together model twenty years after its inception.