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Request a Destination Kindergarten Storytime Kit

Please complete this form to request a Destination Kindergarten Storytime Kit.  Kits may be borrowed for 2 weeks.  Each kit contains: 5-7 books, a binder with songs, action rhymes, and fingerplays, and several classroom manipulatives for activities.

Kindergarten Life Skills: Conflict Resolution and Sharing

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Tates Creek Branch - Large Meeting Room
A time for children ages 4-5 and their caregivers to practice the social emotional skills they need for kindergarten! This session will focus on relationship skills, conflict resolution and sharing.
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Kindergarten Life Skills: Empathy and Kindness

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Beaumont Branch - Large Meeting Room
Caregivers and children ages 4-5 practice the social-emotional skills needed for kindergarten! This session will focus on empathy and kindness. No registration required. 
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Kindergarten Life Skills: Empathy and Kindness

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Eastside Branch - Children's Program Room
Caregivers and children ages 4-5 practice the social-emotional skills needed for kindergarten! This session will focus on empathy and kindness. No registration required.
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Kindergarten Life Skills: Empathy and Kindness

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Central Library - Meeting Room D
Caregivers and children ages 4-5 practice the social-emotional skills needed for kindergarten! This session will focus on empathy and kindness. No registration required.
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Kindergarten Life Skills : Empathy and Kindness

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Marksbury Family Branch - Classroom
A time for children ages 4-5 and their caregivers to practice the social and emotional skills they need for kindergarten! This session will focus on building empathy and kindness.
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Kindergarten Life Skills: Empathy and Kindess

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Tates Creek Branch - Large Meeting Room
A time for children ages 4-5 and their caregivers to practice the social emotional skills they need for kindergarten! This session will focus on social awareness, empathy and kindness.
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Students & Educators

Here at the library, we provide a range of programs, services, and online resources that support academic enrichment and help students and educators prep for success.

Walking Tour

Lafayette’s Visit to Lexington Walking Tour

Join us for a walking tour of the places the Marquis de Lafayette visited in downtown Lexington in 1825!

Tour Length 1.76 miles

The music clips used in this tour are from “Walking Barefoot on Grass” by Kai Engel, and are used with a CCBY license. It is available here.

Lafayettes Visit to Lexington FULL.mp3

Lafayette’s Visit to Lexington Walking Tour

Join us for a walking tour of the places the Marquis de Lafayette visited in downtown Lexington in 1825!

Tour Length 1.76 miles

Map of downtown Lexington with blue stars representing the stops on the tour of locations Lafayette visited
Walking Tour

Notorious Lexington Walking Tour

Join us for a walking tour of downtown Lexington's most notorious places! The full tour is available as a single MP3, or you can download individual tracks. For the single MP3, music will play between the stops. You can pause the track while you walk between stops.

Please Note: Some Listener's Discretion is advised.

This tour covers a walking distance of 1.43 miles.

The music clips used in this tour are from “Walking Barefoot on Grass” by Kai Engel, and are used with a CCBY license. It is available here.

Notorious Lexington Walking Tour - FULL.mp3

Notorious Lexington Walking Tour

Join us for a walking tour of downtown Lexington's most notorious places! The full tour is available as a single MP3, or you can download individual tracks. For the single MP3, music will play between the stops.

Map of downtown Lexington with thirteen (13) blue stars noting the locations of the tour stops.
Library News

Lexington Public Library Foundation Announces Lead Gift from Marksbury Family Foundation for New Library Branch

New Versailles Road Library Branch to be named Marksbury Family Branch

Lexington, Kentucky (March 9, 2022) – Lexington Public Library and Lexington Public Library Foundation are honored to announce that the Marksbury Family Foundation has committed the lead gift for the capital campaign to rebuild the library branch at the corner of Versailles Road and Village Drive.  In recognition of their generosity, the new facility will be named the Marksbury Family Branch when it opens in 2024.

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Interlibrary Loan

The Lexington Public Library offers an Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service which allows cardholders in good standing to borrow books and receive copies of articles we do not own and cannot purchase. Our borrowing network includes over 4,000 participating public and academic libraries.

Digital Archives - Collection - Group

Community Collections

group of children in Grade 5B at Constitution School
The Community Collections consist of objects shared from local community residents and organizations. Individuals have lent items of local significance to the library to give the larger community awareness and access. The original objects are not owned by the Lexington Public Library. 
 
Submissions for the Community Collections are open. If you are an individual or organization interested in possibly lending items to be digitized by the library, please contact elibrarian@lexpublib.org. We consider item age, location, content, relevance, privacy considerations, and item condition when determining items to add. Content donors must be the legal copyright holders if the item is not in the public domain.
 
Kentucky History Awards Icon noting this collection received the award in 2019.

 

Digital Archives - Collection

Brown-Hocker Community Collection

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s March on Frankfort took place in 1964.
The Brown-Hocker Collection is a community collection of photos and realia from African American events and people in Lexington and Kentucky history. 
 
The objects in the collection are primarily for
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