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Child Safety Policy*

Print Version (PDF) The Library is a Public Space Kalamazoo Public Library welcomes and encourages children and their parents, guardians,…

KPL TV: Michigan History

1980 Kalamazoo Tornado

Video coverage of the May 13, 1980, tornado in downtown Kalamazoo.

KPL TV: Kalamazoo History

State Hospital Water Tower

Kalamazoo Historic Preservation coordinator Sharon Ferraro reveals the secrets of this historic landmark and talks about its future as part…

KPL TV: Music & Concerts

Belfast Gin @ KPL

Belfast Gin creates a sound unique to the Celtic genre with an almost classic rock feel—a music category they call…

Business

Kalamazoo Funeral Homes

In Kalamazoo’s earliest days, there were no funeral homes in the sense that we know them, or even “undertakers,” but…

Biographies

Rawls, Paul W.H.

Paul Wideman Huntington Rawls was well known by the people of Kalamazoo, not as a man of wealth and industry,…

Wakeshma Township

Leggett School

Location: District #9 – Section 33, southwest corner of Y Avenue and 42nd Street. Kalamazoo County 1890, Published by Wm. C.…

Kalamazoo Public Schools

Colored School

Bird’s-eye-view lithograph, 1867-1868. Kalamazoo Valley Museum One of the more puzzling events in the history of Kalamazoo’s public school district…

KPL TV: Music & Concerts

Who Hit John? (again) @ KPL

Back for a second appearance at Kalamazoo Public Library on November 17, 2010, as part of KPL’s continuing Live Music…

Black History

Hill, Forrest M.

Forrest M. Hill. (Gazette 18 Feb 1934) The name Forrest Hill won’t likely conjure a collection of grand biographical accomplishments…

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Social Media Policy

Print Version (PDF) Kalamazoo Public Library’s presence on social media provides a public forum to facilitate the sharing of ideas,…

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AutoMate

Powered by the automotive experts at MOTOR, AutoMate provides the most accurate, authoritative and up-to-date service and repair information for…

Small Business Reference Center

Small Business Reference Center offers exclusive full text for many top consumer small business reference books, as well as tools…

Britannica School

Suite of Britannica School resources at four levels - Learning Zone, Elementary, Middle, and High. School code is MeL5. Each…

Art & Architecture Source

Art & Architecture Source is the largest full-text art research database covering fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as…

Newspapers.com

Newspapers.com is the largest online newspaper archive consisting of 493 million+ pages of historical newspapers from 11,800+ newspapers from around…

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