Kinsley Public Library

Kinsley Public Library Public library

06/01/2026

📰✨ Calling all newspaper savers and collectors! ✨📰

We're on a mission to complete our collection of Sentinel newspapers and are searching for the following missing issues:

📅 July 17, 24, & 31, 2025
📅 January 1, 8, 15, & 22, 2026
📅 February 5, 12, & 26, 2026
📅 March 5, 2026
📅 April 2, 9, 16, 23, & 30, 2026
📅 May 7, 14, 21, & 28, 2026

If you have any of these editions tucked away and would be willing to part with them, we'd love to take them off your hands! ❤️

Please send us a message or comment below if you can help. Feel free to share this post so we can spread the word!

Thank you for helping us fill in the missing pieces of our collection! 🗞️😊

06/01/2026

📣 word of the week 📣
Sesquipedalian
Pronunciation:
ses-kwi-pih-DAY-lee-un /ˌsɛskwɪpɪˈdeɪliən/
Definition:
Someone or something characterized by the use of long, complex words.
It’s wonderfully ironic because sesquipedalian is itself a long, complicated word.
Origin:
From the Latin sesquipedalis, meaning “a foot and a half long” (sesqui = one and a half, ped = foot). The Roman poet Horace used it to mock overly long words in writing.
Example sentence:
“The professor’s sesquipedalian lectures impressed everyone, though few students understood them.”

Children's Early Literacy & Activity Calendars for June
05/31/2026

Children's Early Literacy & Activity Calendars for June

Big Shoutout to Action for Alex! We had some amazing helping hands at the Kinsley Library this morning! The team jumped ...
05/29/2026

Big Shoutout to Action for Alex! We had some amazing helping hands at the Kinsley Library this morning! The team jumped right in and tackled some major projects to get us ready for our community. 🧼 We cleaned the terrariums for our summer reading program kids, 📦 boxed away older books to make room for a bright, beautiful new display, 📚 shifted a book collection to hide our ugly storage boxes from the front entrance,🪑 reorganized our tables and chairs to make the layout more welcoming for patrons. A huge thank you to these girls for showing up today, and to the rest of the crew for the wonderful work they continuously do for our community!

Summer Reading has begun and we have the code for you to record your minutes on the ReaderZone app. Remember to reach yo...
05/27/2026

Summer Reading has begun and we have the code for you to record your minutes on the ReaderZone app. Remember to reach your goal of 600 minutes by July 19!

We're challenging all adults to read this summer as we do the children. The goal is to read 700 minutes by July 19th and...
05/27/2026

We're challenging all adults to read this summer as we do the children. The goal is to read 700 minutes by July 19th and check off three book challenges. Come in today to pick up a card!

The library has a new Director. A big welcome to Yaneth Holguin. a familiar face, who has worked here before.
05/26/2026

The library has a new Director. A big welcome to Yaneth Holguin. a familiar face, who has worked here before.

05/25/2026

📢 word of the week 📢
Sonder
Pronunciation:
SON-der /ˈsɒn.dər/
Definition:
The profound realization that every random passerby is living a life as vivid, emotionally complex, and detailed as your own — with their own ambitions, routines, memories, relationships, and struggles.
Origin:
“Sonder” was coined by writer John Koenig in The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, a project dedicated to inventing words for emotions that people feel but rarely have names for.
It isn’t an ancient English word; it’s a modern invented term that became popular online because people strongly connected with the idea.
Example sentence:
“Watching the city lights from the rooftop, she felt a sudden sense of sonder, imagining millions of lives unfolding behind every window.”
Why people love the word:
It captures a strangely humbling feeling — the awareness that you are the center of your own story, but only a background character in countless others.

Freddy the Gorilla had to go home because his animal friends missed him so much, but he promises to come back sometime. ...
05/22/2026

Freddy the Gorilla had to go home because his animal friends missed him so much, but he promises to come back sometime. He says he read a lot of books while he was here and asked to sit on the bookworm before he left.

05/20/2026

The Library will be closed on Monday, May 25, in observance of Memorial Day.

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208 E 8th Street
Kinsley, KS
67547

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 7pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 7pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 1pm - 5pm

Telephone

+16206593341

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