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Meeting Agendas, Materials & Minutes
Access meeting minutes, agendas, and materials for the KPL Board of Trustees meetings.
Please note the Meet the Author event originally scheduled at Chenery Auditorium on Tuesday, March 22 at 7 pm…
The mid and late 1800’s were a transformative time in American history in many ways. Traditional American values were limiting…
Automobile sales were booming in 1910. More than 25 makes of cars were being sold in Kalamazoo by that time,…
“To stimulate the appreciation and the creation of art.” With that goal, the Kalamazoo Chapter of the American Federation of…
It was sustained for a mere four years, from 1844 to 1848, but history has not forgotten the effort put…
Ralph Waldo Emerson came to Kalamazoo in February of 1860 Over the course of almost two hundred years, a wide…
Raw, unedited videotape of the Tuesday, May 13, 1980 Kalamazoo, Michigan tornado. This video was recorded near the intersection of…
Roaring twenties, the Great Depression and World War II are covered as Lynn Houghton continues Michigan’s colorful history including information about…
Don’t miss the good witch, KPL’s Miss Natalie, as she offers up some cute and quirky Halloween storybook readings including,…
Artist(s): Johnny Rodriguez w/ Doug Kershaw, and Mike Yeager Date: 9 July 1976 Tickets: $4.00/$5.00/$6.00 (reserved seating) Attendance: (unknown) “tiny”…
Kalamazoo County (MI) boasts one of the largest collections of Usonian Houses in the world. Just after WWII, a group…
Wally Pleasant with Alisa Dyer, Kalamazoo Public Library, May 16, 2012 (23 videos).
What is a Resolute-Humble Leader and how does ONEplace work to encourage and equip them? Some context on the term,…
The Kalamazoo Corset Company was one of Kalamazoo’s largest employer in the early decades of the 20th century. The overwhelming…
During the 1960s and 1970s, Vic Taylor's Kalamazoo-based "LaVal Records" was a big name in popular entertainment, especially among lovers…
YA author Gretchen McNeil gave an insightful presentation in the Van Deusen Room during her Kalamazoo visit. She spoke at…
The Red Sea Pedestrians brought their one-of-a-kind, high-energy, neo-Klezmer, full-blown, instrument-swapping fusion back to the Kalamazoo Public Library for an…
Pat Ball interviews Mary Calletto Rife and Maureen Cartmill about Kalamazoo Public Library’s 100th anniversary parties for Children’s Services. From…
As part of the library’s 150th-anniversary celebration, KPL’s Keith Howard takes a close look at the origins of the Washington…
Containing many of the top-ranked biographical reference collections and magazines, this database offers a comprehensive collection of full-text biographies and…
MasterFILE Complete offers the largest collection of popular full-text magazines, reference books and other highly-regarded sources from the world's leading…
Poetry index of 600,000 poems with 50,000 full text. Short Story Finder offers full text, explanations, biographies. Over 1,000 complete…
Magazines and reference books for middle school students. Includes thousands of biographies and primary source documents. Subjects include history, current…
Rocket Languages is an award-winning, interactive online language learning system. Users can learn conversational language at their own pace. Languages…