Parchment Community Library

08/31/2026

TUESDAY! 🌺 Our library hosts a Craft Stitching Group! 🪡🧵 Join other crafters for this fun, drop-in session on the first Tuesday of each month. 🌼💖

Bring your favorite project and spend some time chatting with new friends while you work!

Our next session is this Tuesday, September 1st - drop in any time from 1:00-4:00 p.m.

08/30/2026

New NON-FICTION books, ready to go home with you! 📖💙📖

Place a hold on any item - there are 4 ways to do it:

1. log into your account at our website: https://parchmentlibrary.biblionix.com/catalog/
2. call the library at 269.343.7747
3. send us an email at [email protected]
4. stop by the library and ask us!

08/30/2026

New FICTION books, ready to go home with you! 📚🥳📚

Place a hold on any item - there are 4 ways to do it:

1. log into your account at our website: https://parchmentlibrary.biblionix.com/catalog/
2. call the library at 269.343.7747
3. send us an email at [email protected]
4. stop by the library and ask us!

08/30/2026

08/29/2026

~ Weekend Book Club ~
What are you reading
this weekend? 📖

08/28/2026

You are now a bestselling author.
What genre do you write? 📖

08/28/2026

★ New Book at Noon: How to Feel Loved: The Five Mindsets That Get You More of What Matters Most by Sonja Lyubomirsky and Harry Reis ★ (Self-Help)

This exceptional book presents a radical, hopeful, and science-backed shift in how to think about love, revealing that feeling loved isn’t about making ourselves more appealing, available, and lovable—it’s about showing our full and vulnerable selves to others and encouraging our loved ones to reveal their full and vulnerable selves to us. This is true for romantic love but also for the love we feel in friendship, family, and beyond.

How to Feel Loved introduces five powerful mindsets—tools to help us feel the love we crave with the people in our lives.

A Sharing mindset—showing our vulnerabilities and inner world, not just the polished parts

A Listening-to-Learn mindset—making space to truly tune in to another, not just to take turns speaking

A Radical Curiosity mindset—being genuinely interested in another and asking better questions

An Open-Heart mindset—being kind and affirming to another for who they truly are

A Multiplicity mindset—embracing the messy complexity in all of us

These mindset shifts give shape to a dynamic back-and-forth process the authors call the Relationship Sea-Saw, which will help readers remake their conversations in ways that enable them to deeply know those they love and become deeply known by them. It isn’t enough to be loved. To be truly fulfilled, we must feel loved. This book shows us how.

{Check back every weekday at noon to see a new featured book!}

{Click the hashtag to see previous selections)
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To place a hold on this (or any) title, stop by the library or give us a call at 343-7747 or log into your account at our website: https://parchmentlibrary.biblionix.com/catalog/

08/28/2026

Please SHARE with anyone who might need an ID! 🪪

The Kalamazoo County ID Program Mobile Unit is coming to the Parchment Community Library on Monday, September 21 from 3:00 pm until 6:00 pm.

​A county ID will allow you to pick up prescriptions from the pharmacy, present additional identity credentials to the state, prove your identity when using credit cards, cash checks at participating financial institutions, and more.

The Kalamazoo County Identification Card is a photo identification (ID) available to Kalamazoo County residents age 11 and older. The Kalamazoo County ID is intended to recognize all Kalamazoo County residents and enable them to connect with public safety, civic, and community services.

To get an ID, you must be able to provide proof of residency and identification, but there are numerous paths to do this using a point system. Check the Kalamazoo County ID website for more information: https://www.kalcounty.gov/858/Kalamazoo-County-ID or call (269) 384-8307.

The cost to receive an ID is $10. Payment methods include cash, check, credit/debit card, money order, or use of scholarship. Scholarships are available to all who ask for them.

08/28/2026

Prehistoric Googling 😂 Do you remember using a card catalog?

08/27/2026

"If I'm remembered 100 years from now, I hope it will be not for looks but for books." - Dolly Parton 📚💙