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Due to mechanical problems the Bookmobile will be off the road until further notice.
Bookmobile User? If you have questions about your reservations or items already checked out, please call the Bookmobile Office at (262) 564-6190.
Free copies of Sun, Stone and Shadows: 20 Great Mexican Short Stories, edited by Jorge F. Hernández, will be available to the public beginning the week of February 1 at area locations (while supplies last). A children’s version of the first story in the book, My Life with the Wave by Catherine Cowen, will also be available for children up to age 12. Free adult reader’s guides are available at any KPL branch.
Book discussions begin March 4, 2012. The Big Read Kenosha County 2012 Kick-Off event will take place on March 3, 2012 at Mahone Middle School, and free community programming and events will run through March 31, 2012. Check out Big Read Events or call (262) 564-6130 for more information.
Download Audiobooks, eBooks, Music, and Video Anytime, Anywhere
Enjoy popular material from the comfort of home! Kenosha Public Library is proud to offer you best-selling and classic audiobooks, eBooks, music, and video available 24/7 from our website through OverDrive.
You can browse available items, check them out with your library card, and download to a PC or Mac®, and many mobile devices like the iPhone® & iPod touch®, iPad®, and Android™; and the following eBook readers: Kindle™, Kobo™, Literati™, Pandigital®, Sony® Reader™, and the Barnes & Noble NOOK™ - for FREE!
With thousands of popular fiction and non-fiction titles to choose from, OverDrive is guaranteed to have something for everyone. You can download best-selling novels, well-known classics, self-improvement guides, and much more.
This service, powered by OverDrive, is free with your library card. To get started downloading audiobooks, eBooks, and more, visit OverDrive.
The newest addition to the digital collection,
Kenosha's Lost Industries: Photographs and Corporate Materials, 1850s-1990s, contains over 1,600 images and 35 corporate catalogs, product advertising pieces, periodicals, books, posters, a newspaper supplement, program booklet, stereo cards, and publicity shots relate to former major manufacturers in Kenosha County that had a significant impact on the growth of the city and the lives of its citizens as well as an influential state, national, and international presence.
The Kenosha County History: Images and Texts, 1830s-1940s digital collection contains materials owned by the KPL and the Kenosha County Historical Society and Museum. 
The collection includes materials from the C.E. Dewey Lantern Slide Collection. Named collectively for Cortland Ernest Dewey, the 1,232 images primarily depict people, buildings, landscapes, objects and significant events in the city and county of Kenosha from the 1830s to the early 1940s.
The Louis M. Thiers Glass Negative Collection captures nearly 1,000 subjects and scenes from the late 1880s into the early 1910s.
