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Indigenous Portal

Engage with KFPL's Indigenous programming, collections and community partnerships!

Programs, Events, Services and Recommendations

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Emancipation Day Storytime

Join us for a special Emancipation Day Storytime at Confederation Park. In partnership with Ruthy's Reading Room, enjoy stories, music and fun activities that honour freedom, resilience and Black history.

The Isabel Turner Branch will be temporarily closed starting Fall 2024 for renovations. During this time, we’ll be temporarily moving to the Cataraqui Centre.  Get updates here.

Illustration of a summer puppet show tour featuring a green dinosaur and purple bunny puppet above a colourful map with location pins and a Kingston Frontenac Public Library vehicle.

Catch the Summer Puppet Show Tour!

The Summer Puppet Show Tour is coming to a branch near you! Don't miss KFPL’s puppeteers for a series of fun, free performances filled with music, storytelling and beloved characters.

Enhance your library access — register for Extended Hours at the Pittsburgh Branch.

Library Kiosk

Library Kiosk at kingston secondary school

Enjoy expanded service in the Kingscourt neighbourhood with the Library Kiosk at Kingston Secondary School.

A variety of books with text reading May We Suggest: Now Trending on #BookTok

Now Trending on #BookTok

What’s BookTok? It’s one of the many niches of TikTok, devoted to all things books! TikTok users read, recommend and review books and rant and rave about literary tropes with favourite topics including enemies to lovers, found family, and right person wrong time. Check out some of these hot BookTok reads and don’t forget to follow KFPL’s TikTok, too!

Books and a drawing of people on a globe with text reading May We Suggest: Equity Diversity and Inclusion for kids and adults

Support human rights and equity with these books

From parenting how-tos to books that help kids look for — and be — the good in the world, these books promote respect, compassion, and dignity. For kids, parents, caregivers, teachers and anyone else in our communities, this list offers important reminders of diversity, equity, and inclusion, key to standing up for human rights.


You can also read along with the little ones in your life using books from our Pride collections!