October 1-4 is First Nation Public Library Week! FNPLW was introduced by First Nation librarians to raise awareness for public library services offered on Indigenous lands, and at county and municipal libraries. Take this opportunity to reserve these recent titles featuring diverse Indigenous voices.
Recent additions to the collection
Indigenous Portal
Engage with KFPL's Indigenous programming, collections and community partnerships!
Programs, Events, Services and Recommendations
Truth and Reconciliation Reading Challenge
Explore themes of Truth and Reconciliation and enter to win prizes including books from the First Nations Community Reads list for this year, or a gift card to local Indigenous businesses.
Start reading on Beanstack!
Upcoming Programs and Events
Join Dr. Patty Douglas and Queen's University for a talk on inclusion and storytelling
How can we—educators, researchers and community members—tap the power of research and story to imagine and create a world that affirms, and even desires, disability and difference?
Storytelling as Social Change brings to life a new storytelling and disability studies approach to inclusion and belonging in education, countering long-standing educational inequities heightened through COVID-19. The talk moves its audience beyond a Western biomedical understanding of disability as deficit that needs be remedied. Instead, Dr. Douglas asserts disability and difference as fundamental, desirable, and needed for tangibly reimagining living, learning, and thriving together on planet earth.
Library Services
Reserve a museum pass to the Royal Ontario Museum today
We’re thrilled to announce that we now have free museum passes to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) available! Explore the wonders of nature, art and culture with complimentary entry to one of Toronto’s most iconic destinations. All you need is a library card to get your pass!
Eight passes will be available for patrons to borrow, with each pass permitting free admission during regular public hours to a maximum of four visitors. Children ages 14 and under must be accompanied by an adult. Each pass is available to borrow for a week. The pass is valid for general museum admission and special exhibitions (subject to capacity), it does not include entry to separately ticketed events.
First Nations Communities Read 2024-25 longlist
First Nations Communities READ (FNCR) celebrates Turtle Island’s best Indigenous literature. The FNCR award is presented to selected children’s and YA/adult titles during First Nation Public Library Week in October.
Enjoy these selections from the 2024-25 longlist, and explore the full list on FNCR’s website.