All posts by Susan Aprill
Printing for curbside pickup
Pickup hours are Mondays 1 – 7 and Tuesdays-Fridays 11 – 4.
More details can be found here.
If you submit a form and don’t hear from us within 3 days, please call us at 781-585-0517 and we’ll straighten it out.
Thanks for your patience.
Curbside pickup email form
Pickup hours are Mondays 1 – 7 and Tuesdays-Fridays 11 – 4.
More details for this service can be found here.
If you submit a form and don’t hear from us within 3 days, please call us at 781-585-0517 and we’ll straighten it out.
Thanks for your patience.
Printing for Curbside Pickup – Available Now
The Kingston Public Library is now offering printing with curbside pickup.
- An OCLN library card is required. If you don’t have one, get a Kingston card here.
Your first five pages are free and the charge is 20¢ per page after that. Please be aware that we cannot guarantee complete privacy, though we will place your print jobs in an envelope for pickup.
Please complete the “printing for curbside pickup” form and attach the file to be printed.
Hours for curbside pickup:
- Monday: 1 pm to 7 pm
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday: 11 am to 4pm
What we can print for you:
- Plain paper, letter or legal size, black & white or color
- Maximum file size is 1 MB.
- Acceptable file types are
| jpg | jpeg | png | gif | |
| doc | docx | ppt | pptx | odt |
- If your print job is over 20 pages, we’ll let you know the estimated cost before we print.
- You can pay online if the balance is over $5.00; log in to your OCLN account for more information.
- You can pay in cash when the Library reopens.
When your print job is ready:
- We’ll call you when your items are ready for pickup.
- We’ll also let you know the cost of printing, which is charged to your library card as “Printing.”
- When you arrive at the library, call 781-831-6275 and let us know you’re here.
- Wait in your car until staff puts your document on the table and re-enters the building.
- Please make sure to wear a mask and maintain social distancing with other library visitors.
Basic post rules
These rules are for basic posts, which are used to
- Promote Library resources, services and programs
- Share interesting links and useful information
Text
Write two to three sentences.
Avoid jargon and vendor boilerplate.
If you’re writing about a website, include the name of the target site (text
Note when a library card is needed.
Image
Pick from the media library or upload your own.
Set thumbnail size 150×150.
Set a featured image.
Avoid captions
Links
Make the title of the target site a link to the external site.
Open all non-KPL links in a new window.
Categories
See the category table.
Choose at least one from Audience, Resource type and Information type.
Add Place and General Description if you like.
Some determine where and how your posts show up.
If you’re not clear on any part, ask Mike or Susan
Gale Culinary Arts
Gale OneFile: Culinary Arts contains more than five million articles from over 250 major cooking and nutrition magazines, as well as material from books like, About Wine, Introduction to Catering, Advanced Bread and Pastry, and Eat Fit Be Fit. Have your library card ready to find some new recipes.
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You can register for this free online Author Talk at:
www.eventkeeper.com/code/ekform.cfm?curOrg=KPL&curName=2020/10/29_Author_Talk_-_Abdi_Nor_Iftin
Canton Public Library hosts noted diversity consultant and author E. Dolores Johnson in a virtual conversation, Tuesday, October 20, 7-8 p.m., on her new book, Say I'm Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love.
This virtual event is free. Registration by 3 p.m. on the day of the event is required to receive the Zoom invite:
www.eventkeeper.com/code/ekform.cfm?curOrg=CANTON&curName=2020/10/20_Author_E_Dolores_Johnson
With so many courses to choose, which ones will you take? Universal Class is free 24/7 with your Kingston Public Library card. To get started, go to: www.kingstonpubliclibrary.org/newsite/2020/04/15/universal-class/
Thayer Public Library hosts former stand-up comedian and journalist Kevin Myers in lively, virtual conversation with Boston Globe reporter Jenna Russell, Wednesday, October 21, 7-8 p.m., on his new novel, Hidden Falls, a family crime story set in the Boston-New Bedford area. Funny and full of local flavor, Hidden Falls is bound to be a favorite with Massachusetts readers.
This virtual event is free. Registration by 4 p.m. on the day of the event is required to receive the Zoom invite: www.eventkeeper.com/code/ekform.cfm?curOrg=THAYER&curID=466649
One lucky registered attendee will win a free copy from the publisher!
The year 2026 will mark the 300th anniversary of Kingston's separation from Plymouth. This live-stream conversation poses some very interesting questions about how we tell the "complex stories" of Kingston's past.
masshistorycommons.org/event/conversations-on-the-commons-400-years-and-beyond/
Conversations on the Commons: 400 Years and Beyond | Mass History Commons
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Novelist K-8
Novelist K-8 can help you find your next exciting read. Have your library card ready to sign in.
BookFlix
Use BookFlix for PreK+ Reading Readiness
TumbleBooks
Read, watch, and learn! TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of children’s e-books. Log in with your library card and tumble away.
Category table
| Audience | Place | Gen. desc. | Reso. type | Info. type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | Front | Read | Library-no-card | Promo |
| Adult | Featured | Watch | Library-card | Status |
| Teen | 1st | Listen | ToK | How-to |
| Kids | 2nd | Learn | Outside | Admin |
| Family | 3rd | Explore | Other | News |
This is a proposed streamlined version of categories.
Each post should have categories from each column so that it shows up on the page(s) that call it.
Each super-category (heading of the table) has at least one associated page that aggregates posts as they’re made.
Featured is for specific audience pages (kids page, teen page); front is for the main landing page of the whole site. The ordinals are for specific placement.