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The shelf showcases 22 titles reflecting a wide variety of reading interests as suggested by Kansas City readers and then selected by The Kansas City Public Library Board of Trustees". [6] The following books are depicted in the work: Kansas City Stories Volumes 1 and 2; Catch-22 by Joseph Heller; Silent Spring by Rachel Carson; O Pioneers! by ...
This new library soon became a branch of the Kansas City, Kansas Library, and in 1917 the city opened the Argentine Carnegie Library adjacent to Emerson Park. [4] This facility survived the 1951 flood and, by the 1970s, housed the largest Spanish Language collection in the metro area. [ 3 ]
The Central Library is the main library of the Kansas City Public Library system, which is located in the Library District of Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, United States.It is situated at 14 West 10th Street, at the corner of West 10th Street and Baltimore Avenue, across Baltimore Avenue from the Kansas City Club and up from the New York Life Building.
The Kansas City Public Library is proud to be a place where members of the community can come together to learn and connect. While most people know the library as a place to check out a new book ...
The Kansas City Club on Baltimore Avenue. Originally developed as a commercial and entertainment area in the 1880s, the Library District took its new name in 2003 in connection with the move of the Kansas City Public Library's Central Branch to the former headquarters of the First National Bank of Kansas City, presently the Central Library.
The Kansas City Public Library Westport branch temporarily closed last week after an altercation between two library patrons that resulted in a police response, library officials said.
The first electric streetcar operated in Kansas City on September 6, 1889. [7] By 1908, all but one of Kansas City's streetcar routes had been converted to electricity. [1] When the Kansas City Public Service Company (KCPS) was created in 1925, it inherited over 700 streetcars that had been owned and operated by private companies. [5]
The Linda Hall Library is a privately endowed American library of science, engineering and technology located in Kansas City, Missouri, sitting "majestically on a 14-acre (5.7 ha) urban arboretum." [ 1 ] It is the "largest independently funded public library of science, engineering and technology in North America" [ 2 ] and "among the largest ...