Kent District Library

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Kent District Library
Country United States
Established1927  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Location Kent County, Michigan
Branches20 plus one bookmobile
Collection
Size1,025,580 (2016) [1]
Access and use
Circulation8,260,738 (2016) [1]
Members258,338 (2016) [1]
Other information
Budget$22.3 million (2017) [2]
DirectorLance M. Werner
Staff221 (2016) [1]
Website www.kdl.org

The Kent District Library is a public library system located in Kent County, Michigan. With twenty branch locations and an annual circulation of more than 8.2 million items (2016 circulation data), [1] the Kent District Library is one of the largest and busiest library systems in all of Michigan. [3]

Contents

The KDL Service Center, the library system headquarters, are in Plainfield Township, near the Comstock Park CDP. [4] [5] [6]

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. [7]

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 20 branches throughout the county and one bookmobile.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "KDL 2016 Fact Book" (PDF).
  2. "2017 Strategic Plan Update" (PDF).
  3. "Michigan Public Library Statistics 2009". Library of Michigan. 2009. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2010.
  4. "KDL Service Center 814 West River Center Dr. NE Comstock Park, MI". Kent District Library. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
  5. "2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Comstock Park CDP, MI." (Archive) U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on December 25, 2012.
  6. "Street Map." (Archive) Plainfield Township, Kent County, Michigan. Retrieved on December 25, 2012.
  7. "About KDL". KDL.org. Kent District Library. 2010. Retrieved 18 September 2010.