Kent District Library
The Kent District Library is a public library system located in Kent County, Michigan. With eighteen branch locations and an annual circulation of more than 5 million items (2007 circulation data), the Kent District Library is one of the largest and busiest library systems in all of Michigan.[1]
The KDL Service Center, the library system headquarters, are in Plainfield Township, near the Comstock Park CDP.[2][3][4]
History
The beginnings of the library are in 1927 as a library extension work project of the Kent County Federation of Women's Clubs. The Kent County Library Association was established in 1936 and functioned as a department of Kent County until 1994 when it became Kent District Library.[5]
In summer 2013, Kent District Library invited local Wikipedians to use library space and resources for Meetups, and offered Wikipedia editing classes to the community.
Branch locations
The library has 18 branches throughout the county.
- Alpine
- Alto
- Byron Township
- Caledonia Township
- Cascade Township
- Comstock Park
- East Grand Rapids
- Gaines Township
- Grandville
- Kentwood
- Lowell (Englehardt Branch)
- Plainfield Township
- Rockford (Krause Memorial Branch)
- Sand Lake / Nelson Township
- Spencer Township
- Tyrone Township
- Walker
- Wyoming
References
- ↑ "Michigan Public Library Statistics 2009". Library of Michigan. 2009. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2010.
- ↑ "Contact Us." Kent District Library. Retrieved on December 27, 2012. "KDL Service Center 814 West River Center Dr. NE Comstock Park, MI
- ↑ "2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Comstock Park CDP, MI." (Archive) U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on December 25, 2012.
- ↑ "Street Map." (Archive) Plainfield Township, Kent County, Michigan. Retrieved on December 25, 2012.
- ↑ "About KDL". KDL.org. Kent District Library. 2010. Retrieved 18 September 2010.