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Kingston Public Library YouTube Channel

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The staff of the Kingston Public Library have curated playlists on the these topics: Do It Yourself (DIY), Library/Community, History, Live Music, Music, Science, and Natural World.  Click here to visit our YouTube channel.

Keep checking back as we’ll be updating our channel with new content!

Universal Class

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With a growing course catalog of over 500 online classes, Universal Class provides continuing education to cover almost any interest. Over 500,000 students around the world have benefited from Universal Class’ unique instructional technologies. With streaming video, website avatars, insightful instructional content, helpful tutors, and a social networking experience, Universal Class offers an engaging and measurable learning experience that can help you reach your educational goals.

First time using Universal Class?
Watch a short tutorial below to learn the basics


Open a Card and Use it From Home

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Open a Card


Click here to open a library card online

Using Your Card From Home

There’s lots you can do from home with your library card.  Check out an ebook, watch a movie, read a newspaper and more!

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With a growing course catalog of over 500 online classes Universal Class provides continuing education to cover almost any interest. Over 500,000 students around the world have benefited from Universal Class’ unique instructional technologies. With streaming video, website avatars, insightful instructional content, helpful tutors, and a social networking experience, Universal Class offers an engaging and measurable learning experience that can help you reach your educational goals.


Kanopy is an award-winning video streaming service providing access to more than 30,000 independent and documentary films ─  titles of unique social and cultural value from The Criterion Collection, The Great Courses, Media Education Foundation, and thousands of independent filmmakers.  You’ll need your Kingston Public Library Card to log in.  Don’t have a card?  Open one online here!

Movies and Books

Hoopla
Overdrive/Libby
Kanopy

Magazines & Periodicals

Newspapers
RB Digital for Magazines

For Kids

Tumblebooks
Overdrive for Kids and Teens
Bookflix
Trueflix

Digital Collections

View all of our digital collections

View of wetlands and trees around a spring.

Elder’s Spring

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View of wetlands and trees around a spring.

“Elder’s Spring was the water supply for the house-holds of Isaac Allerton, the Mayflower Pilgrim, and of other occupants of the farm, until it came into possession of Elder Thomas Cushman, for whom the present name was given. The old spring was a lovely spot, shaded by huge willows, and boiling up from clean, white sand, a strong and steady flow. A generation ago, Mr. John Bagnell, to make a fish or duck pool, dug away the bank, cut down the willows, and so changed the surroundings of the spring, it is quite different from what it used to be.”

Trees and grass in foreground, water in the distance at right.

Source: Emily Fuller Drew Collection MC16; quote from her notes on place names in Kingston.