The Write Michigan Teen Poetry Contest and Slam was back this year, and bigger than ever! We had 237 poems submitted from students at 44 schools across our service area. KDL would like to thank all our teen poets – it can be a scary thing to share your art with strangers, and we are…
April Showers Bring Rain Gardens
By Bethany Heerspink It’s April, and that means April showers. All that rain may mean flowers, but it also means a lot of household runoff. Every time it rains, water from your roof and driveway carries pollutants into the storm sewer and out to Lake Michigan. Fortunately, you can help by planting a rain garden…
KDL Free Library: A Community Builder
When the Cowley family put up their little library a year ago, the world was shutting down due to COVID 19. Painting the library and putting it up in their front yard was a fun lockdown project. Melissa Cowley said they have a lot of avid readers in their neighborhood who enjoyed having access to…
Language, Communication and Culture Care
By Sara Proaño, Community Engagement Manager The way we speak, sign or communicate is deeply rooted in the history of each human group. Our language often serves as a window to a different worldview, another way of thinking and understanding. Multilingual dialog offers unique opportunities to understand each other and empathize with someone else’s story…
Many Hands Make a Great Library
By Christine Mwangi, Director of Fund Development It is hard-wired in all of us to be social beings who enjoy connecting with each other. While the effects of COVID-19 continue to impact our lives, some things have not changed, like the need for volunteers at Kent District Library branches. At KDL, we continue to find…
Kent District Library partners with Kent County Health Department to assist with COVID-19 contact tracing efforts
By David Specht, Digital Marketing Strategist People unfamiliar with KDL are often surprised to learn about what all the library has to offer: from bicycles to ukuleles to vinyl records. People might also be surprised to learn about how we’ve pivoted to support services that are not traditionally related to the library. One such instance…
Smashing the Barriers: Accessibility at KDL
By Shelley Roossien Accessibility & Inclusion Specialist Once upon a time, I was a young, fresh-faced college graduate looking for my first “big girl” job as a librarian. I had been working for KDL for three years, and I was given the opportunity to head up what was at the time KDL’s Library for the…
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