Kent District Library
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| Kent District Library | |
|---|---|
| Location | Kent County, Michigan, United States |
| Established | 1927 |
| Branches | 20 plus one bookmobile |
| Collection | |
| Size | 1,025,580 (2016)[1] |
| Access and use | |
| Circulation | 8,260,738 (2016)[1] |
| Members | 258,338 (2016)[1] |
| Other information | |
| Budget | $22.3 million (2017)[2] |
| Director | Lance M. Werner |
| Employees | 221 (2016)[1] |
| Website | www |
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]
The KDL Service Center, the library system headquarters, are in Plainfield Township, near the Comstock Park CDP.[4][5][6]
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.
