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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.
The library is part of the Portage Library Consortium, which includes the Portage County Library District and Reed Memorial Library in nearby Ravenna, and is a school district library associated with the Kent City School District. Kent Free Library was established in 1892 as the first use of an 1892 Ohio law that allowed municipalities under ...
A literary festival, also known as a book festival or writers' festival, is a regular gathering of writers and readers, typically on an annual basis in a particular city. A literary festival usually features a variety of presentations and readings by authors, as well as other events, delivered over a period of several days, with the primary objectives of promoting the authors' books and ...
The Kentwood Branch Library opened in 2010 on Breton Avenue, next to Kentwood City Hall. Mayor Stephen Kepley, who at the time was the City Engineer, was the project manager for the new library. The library was named the Richard L. Root Library after Kentwood's fifth mayor, who led the city commission and residents in approving a dedicated ...
Ronald Kenneth Leo Collins (born July 31, 1949) is the co-founder and co-director (emeritus) of the History Book Festival [3] and co-founder and co-chair of the First Amendment Salons. [4] He is the editor of the weekly online blog First Amendment News [ 5 ] and editor of Attention (an online journal on the life and legacy of Simone Weil ). [ 6 ]
Last year, the book was one of the most frequently challenged in school districts around the country, according to the American Library Association. But a district review committee of parents ...
The festival was rebranded as Folkestone Book Festival in 2009, moved from September to November and found a new permanent home in Folkestone’s Quarterhouse at the heart of the town's Creative Quarter. The 2018 event was billed as the most international ever, [2] with 50 events, and including an Indian night, an American day, and a Turkish ...
The Kent History and Library Centre is a purpose-built headquarters in James Whatman Way, Maidstone, that opened on 23 April 2012. [1] It has been designed to incorporate under one roof the former Centre for Kentish Studies (the combined county record office and local studies library) and the town's former Central Library.