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Towns

Williams Station

The community once known as Williams is now a ghost town in northwestern Kalamazoo County. Williams was a busy rail…

Policies

3D Printer Policy

Print Version (PDF) Kalamazoo Public Library strives to offer community access to new and emerging technologies such as a 3D…

News

Centering Your Cause

Last week, we concluded our Grant Writing Series (we’ll offer it again January 2021). We didn’t start by diving into…

Immigrants

The Dutch Influence

“Between 1820 and 1840, the number of Hollanders coming to America had averaged fewer than one hundred a year. Between…

Photographers

Ferraro Studio

Lance Ferraro, c.1960 Lancellotto A. Ferraro (Lance) and his Ferraro Studio was one of Kalamazoo’s most active post-war photographers, visually…

Music

Ellis L. Brooks

Ellis L. Brooks (1848-1920) was a trombonist, composer and popular bandleader with strong ties to West Michigan. Brooks directed famous…

Houses

Kirkpatrick House

Photo by Ryan Gage Nestled away on a forested cul-de-sac in the Winchell Neighborhood, the James and Sarah Kirkpatrick House…

Databases

Newspapers.com

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

Science Reference Center

Designed to meet every student researcher's needs, Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science magazines, journals, encyclopedias,…

Home Improvement Reference Center

Through a collection of comprehensive full-text content, this database provides users with detailed, user-friendly “how-to” information covering a variety of…

MeL: Michigan eLibrary

Magazines, journals, newspapers, and reference books provided to Michigan libraries and Michigan residents at home with their Michigan Driver's License…

MasterFILE Complete

MasterFILE Complete offers the largest collection of popular full-text magazines, reference books and other highly-regarded sources from the world's leading…

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