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Make reading part of your summer, no matter your age
Long summer days bring more time for reading for adults, teens and children. This is your online guide to all three summer reading clubs at KCPL, plus programs and other special events.
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June 4–July 21
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May 29–August 31
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May 29–August 31
Get more information about the June 1 & 2 kickoff event for all ages!
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As part of this year's Summer Reading kickoff events patrons showing a KCPL library card will have free admission to the Clay Center’s Science Gallery, space activities and exhibits (planetarium shows and films in the electricSky theater are excluded) on Saturday, June 2.
To encourage participation in this event the Library is waiving the $1.00 fee for any library cards replaced between May 1 and June 2, 2012.
back to page menuLearn to Braid
Learn several hair braiding techniques through demonstrations and hands-on experience. Make hair accessories to use with your new braids. All ages are welcome, but parents are encouraged to help younger braiders. Please bring your own brush and comb.
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Dunbar Branch Library:
- Monday, May 21, 6:30 p.m. register online
Great Decisions Discussion
Join us the third Monday of each month through December for the Foreign Policy Association's Great Decisions Discussion. This national program is designed to engage citizens in learning about the world, and it emphasizes discussion and active participation from those attending. Each participant gets briefing books that feature impartial, thought-provoking analyses on eight issues of concern to U.S. policymakers today and will then be asked to report, either individually or as part of a group, on a specific topic. April's topic is Exit from Afghanistan and Iraq. The group will take a break in July. Discussions will resume in August and the last session will be held on December 3. Discussion leader is local author and historian Kenneth R. Bailey.
back to page menuTumblebook Library
Death before Wicket
(AUDIOBOOK)
Heading for Sydney for a holiday, Phryne Fisher finds her plans interrupted when her maid Dot discovers that her respectable married sister Joan has vanished, leaving her small children to the care of a resentful husband, and Phryne trawls the city's underworld to find the missing woman, all the while investigating the theft of some valuable items from the university dean's safe.
Find more reading, viewing and listening suggestions in our Popular Materials section.
What did kids tumble 17,109 times since January? Tumblebooks, of course! The lightly animated stories in Tumblebooks bring books to life for early and reluctant readers. Early readers can listen and follow along with great stories, and beginning readers can read for themselves. Puzzles and games reinforce what children learn. Tumblebooks also offers chapter books and books in Spanish, Chinese, French and more. Tumble into the fun!
EBSCOhost Mobile
For quite some time there has been a mobile version of the EBSCOHost website optimized for mobile devices, but now there are also applications available for both the iOS and Android through the respective application stores.
If patrons want to use these apps they must first go to the EBSCOHost site via our website to get an authentication key per the instructions below:
- Log into EBSCOhost.
- Click the EBSCOhost iPhone and Android Applications link at the bottom of the page and enter an email address which you can access from your device. An email with an authentication key is sent to you.
- Access the email from your device and click the link found in the email to authenticate the application. You have 24 hours to access the key from your device to authenticate the app. If the key is not used within 24 hours, it expires and you will need a new key.