231-258-9411
247 S. Cedar  Kalkaska, MI.
49646

kalkaskalibrary@yahoo.com

---

 
The Kalkaska County Library provides free WiFi service to our patrons!   

 

 

 

KCL Online Public Access Catalog.  Click on the card catalog to see what books are at the library!

 

 

 

Click on the MeLCat button to browse the Michigan Electronic Library: borrow & renew books using your library card.

 

The Kalkaska County Library is on Facebook.  Click the link above to join!

 

 

 

 

---

Check here to see what new titles are being offered at the library!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Lights, Camera, Action!  Stop into the KCL and check out our new additions to our classic movie collection.  

 

 

 

Movie	Director
Rope	Alfred Hitchcock
Strangers on a Train	Alfred Hitchcock
Saving Private Ryan	Steven Spielberg
Goodfellas	Martin Scorsese
Raging Bull	Martin Scorsese
King Kong	Peter Jackson
The Usual Suspects	Bryan Singer
Annie Hall	Woody Allen
A Hard Day's Night	Richard Lester
Blade Runner	Ridley Scott

 

 

---

 

 

 

 

 

Cirque du Cinema

Presents...

 

Alfred

Hitchcock

 

February 11 @ 1:00pm	February 18 @ 1:00pm	February 25 @ 1:00pm

 

 

 

He was known to his audiences as the 'Master of Suspense' and what Hitchcock mastered was not only the art of making films but also the task of taming his own raging imagination.  Director of such works as Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds and The 39 steps, Hitchcock told his stories through intelligent plots witty dialogue and a spoonful of mystery and murder. In doing so, he inspired a new generation of filmmakers and revolutionized the thriller genre, making him a legend around the world.  His brilliance was sometimes too bright: He was hated as well as loved, oversimplified as well as over analyzed. Hitchcock was eccentric, demanding, inventive, impassioned and he had a great sense of British humor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The Friends of the Kalkaska Library presents an evening of Chocolate Decadence

Tuesday, March 6^th
6:00pm
at the Kalkaska County Library

Restaurateur and Chocolatier Phil Murray apprenticed with some of the best chefs in America, including Paul Prudhomme in New Orleans, learning new skills and growing hungrier for even more knowledge of his chosen profession. His love affair with chocolate began when he took his first course at the famous Cacao Berry School of Chocolate in Pennsauken, New Jersey. While there, Phil learned to temper, enrobe and mold chocolate, to decorate with it, to make truffles, ganaches, desserts, centerpieces and garnishes.

Phil then moved to Northern Michigan in 1986 and opened his famed restaurant, Windows, where he brought his sense of dedication and flair with fine dining cuisine to an area that was starving for something other than “meat and potatoes”.  Now you can find him in downtown Traverse City across from the State Theatre at his bistro Phil’s on Front, where he continues to serve his passion for fine food and chocolate.

Tickets are $10.00 per person and can be purchased at the library desk.

Be at the event to enter a raffle for a $100.00 gift certificate to Phil’s on Front in downtown Traverse City.

All proceeds will go toward the Friends of the Kalkaska Library New Building Fund.

 

 

 

 

Advance Order Forms available for Dawn Triplett’s new book, Brave Boys Were They!

Brave Boys Were They!  contains the biographies of over four hundred Civil War veterans who lived in Kalkaska County. This 8-1/2 x 11, 375 page soft cover book chronicles the events and the activities of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Women’s Relief Corps in Kalkaska that were an active and vital part of the community from the 1880’s through the 1930’s.  The book is indexed with over 1,600 surnames.

Stop into the KCL and fill out your advance order form today!
Brave Boys Were They! can be purchased for only $22.99 for each postpaid copy.

 

 

 

 

 

The Kalkaska County Library presents:

“The Spring Water Series”

 

 

Join us for a special 6 week speakers program

that explores the beauty, the rarity, and the challenges facing Michigan waters.

 

Be amazed, be entertained, be informed.

 

March 7: Chris Doyal

A professional photographer, skilled underwater photographer, and founding member of the Grand Traverse Bay Underwater Preserve Chris will present “What’s in the Bay, Anyway?” (www.gtbup.org)

 

March 14: Mark Breederland

Mark is our area Michigan Sea Grant Extension educator.  Learn everything you ever wanted to know (or didn’t want to know) about Asian Carp & the many terrible threats they present (fishing, tourism, ecosystem.) Learn about the hows and whats of the SeaGrant programs effort to protect the Great Lakes watershed.

(http://www.miseagrant.umich.edu)

 

March 21: Mary Beeker

Meet Mary Beeker, of the Online Water Library (O.W.L.).  Want to know how librarians can find information about anything, anytime, anywhere?  Mary will share some search secrets so that YOU too, can be a water resource super researcher.

(http://dspace.nitle.org/handle/10090/6544)

 

 

March 28: Mark Newman

AKA: “Sooper Yooper: Superhero of the Great Lakes”

Kids of all ages: Meet a real live superhero!  Learn about how Sooper Yooper takes on invasive species and other water bad guys to protect your water.  This is a highly recommended program, by one of our area’s finest talents.  (http://sooperyooper.com)

 

April 4: Ross Richardson

Underwater explorer and adventurer, local shipwreck expert and a cleverly disguised librarian (of course!), Ross will present his most popular shipwreck program: “Shipwrecks of Sleeping Bear Point”.  

 

April 11: Maureen McManus

Want to get involved?  Itching to pick a fight with an invasive weed?  Need to know who to call? Where to write? This is your program!  Meet Maureen McManus of the Watershed Center Grand Traverse Bay, a clearinghouse of information for people who want to help protect one of the finest natural resources on the blue planet: us!    (www.gtbay.org)

 

Don't play boring games...play BOARD GAMES!

Remember when playing games meant gathering around the dining room table and interacting with your parents, siblings and friends? Me neither. But I hear it was a lot of fun! So put down those controllers and unplug yourself from the gaming mainframe and make a pilgrimage to the Kalkaska County Library where you can play the classic board games such as Risk, Monopoly, Scrabble, Chess, Checkers and Backgammon.  Heck, why not even start clubs of your own!

All games are located in the Teen Center in the lower level of the library.

Board games, like libraries, are not going away anytime soon.  Read this article in CNN Money.

 

 

 

 

Invitation To All Preschoolers! 

 

Bring a grown-up and come to story time.  The Kalkaska County Library is offering Story time for preschoolers every Friday at 10:00am (except holidays). Our goal is to develop a relationship with preschoolers and motivate them to enjoy books and to take care of them.  We want to encourage young people to use our library. There will be a different theme each week with fresh new ideas.  A simple craft will be offered followed by a snack.

 

For more information call 231-258-9411.

---