Giant Bookshelf of The Kansas City Public LIbrary
This is the giant bookshelf that covers the wall of the parking garage of the Kansas City Public library in downtown KC.
The books run along the south wall of the Central Library's parking garage on 10th St. between Wyandotte St. and Baltimore Ave.
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Publitzer Prize for Fiction: Crosby Kemper III of the Kansas City Public Library
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Giant Bookshelf of Kansas City Library USA
One of the most unusual and fascinating example of modern architecture can be seen in Kansas City USA, and it is not just another skyscraper not billionaire villa but a facade garage Public Library Central Branch. We are just talking about the exterior of this Library, coz of its very extraordinary looks. The wall parking has been designed so as to be similar to the number of giant books lined up a shelf. Book spines, the size of which is about 22 feet high and 9 feet wide, made by Mylar (the material of which make advertising sings boards.) On the Shelf features 22 book volume, A unique structure that is a pleasure even for those who do not like to read books and dont like BOOKS. It is impossible to pass by without stopping to admire the unusual architectural solution. Approximately $50 million was spent on the project. The library its was opened over 100 year ago (in 1873) and it was located somewhere else. Its change its address several times and in 2006 the library was build the garage behind the books in response to need for additional downtown Parking. With such an extraordinary design, the creators were intended to attract new readers to the library walls, fans of literature, as well as tourists on the streets. The building became incredibly popular, which adorn the world famous authors and their works. Today its is a modern library in the arsenal which 2.5 million books and more than 2.4 million customers per year, which pleases the eye with resident and visitors alike. It is also worth mentioning that its unique design inspired may residents remember what library and its values. Public Library Kansas City has ten branches, but the main is the largest and has the special looks.
The 2019 State of Black Kansas City
Four years ago, the Urban League of Greater Kansas City’s assessment of African-American well-being in the city was sobering. From health to social justice, key indicators trended downward. To what extent, if any, have they improved?
President and CEO Gwendolyn Grant leads a discussion of the Urban League’s 2019 State of Black Kansas City: Urban Education, Still Separate and Unequal. Its equality index identifies gaps between blacks and whites in education as well as health, social justice, economics, and civic engagement.
The event—co-presented by the Urban League of Greater Kansas City—features remarks by authors and other contributors to the report, which will be available to attendees.
R.Crosby Kemper III, Kansas City Public Library Director
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Interview with Crosby Kemper III is executive director of the Kansas City Public Library
Crosby Kemper III is executive director of the Kansas City Public Library former CEO of UMB Financial Corporation. He co-founded and is chairman of the Show-Me Institute. He has taught English at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China, and been a bookseller in Grand Central Station in New York City. He is the editor of, and contributor to, Winston Churchill: Resolution, Defiance, Magnanimity, Good Will. In 2003-04, he chaired the Commission on the Future of Higher Education in Missouri for then-Missouri Gov. Bob Holden. He has served on the board of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation which operates Monticello, and the boards of the Kansas City Symphony, the Black Archives of Mid-America, Union Station Kansas City, and Lapham’s Quarterly. He helped Marilyn Strauss found the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival and was its first board chair. He also founded and chaired the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival. He has received the Difference Maker Award from the Urban League of Kansas City, the William F. Yates Medallion for Distinguished Service from William Jewell College, the 2010 Harmony Humanitarian Hoffman Legacy Award, and he and the KCPL received the Gold Medal for Libraries from the Institute for Museum and Library Services presented at the White House by former librarian and First Lady Laura Bush. He was inducted into the Mid-America Education Hall of Fame by the Kansas City Kansas Community College Endowment Association and was appointed to the Missouri Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission. He received a bachelor’s degree in history from Yale University.
Welcome to the Kansas City Public Library's H&R Block Business & Career Center
Find a job. Start a business. Support a nonprofit. Manage personal finances. The Library offers resources to enrich your career and help you develop your personal and professional goals. The H&R Block Business & Career Center is located on the third floor of our Central Library, 14 W. 10th St., Kansas City, MO.
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Justice Stephen Breyer at the Kansas City Public Library
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer visit the Kansas City Public Library's Plaza Branch to discuss his recent book, Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View, before a crowd of 680 people on Dec. 8, 2011. The event was sponsored by the Truman Library Institute. Get full audio and video of Justice Breyer's presentation at kclibrary.org.
Organization works to tackle homelessness in Kansas City
For the first time since 2010, homelessness in the United States is on the rise. In Missouri, however, the numbers are down. One local organization is tackling homelessness one family at a time.
Kansas City Public Library raises minimum wage for employees
The Kansas City Public Library has boosted the minimum wage for several part-time employees in the midst of the city's minimum wage debate.
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Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border - September 3, 2013
Long before the Civil War began violence was commonplace along the Missouri-Kansas border. There a recurring cycle of robbery, arson, torture, murder, and revenge was established over the same issues that would fuel the larger conflict.
Jonathan Earle, associate professor of history at the University of Kansas, and Diane Mutti Burke, associate professor of history at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, are editors of the new book Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri. They are joined by contributing writers Kristen Oertel of the University of Tulsa, Jennifer Weber of the University of Kansas, and Jeremy Neely of Missouri State University for a discussion that blends political, military, social, and intellectual history to explain why the region's divisiveness was so bitter and persisted for so long.
July 2014 R Crosby Kemper III: KC Public Library
{WATCH}: R. Crosby Kemper III, Dir., Kansas City Public Library, appears on #ComcastNewsmakers. @americanjazzkc @kclibrary
LeVar Burton at the Kansas City Public Library
LeVar Burton of Reading Rainbow visited the Central Library in KC on Fri. Feb. 18, 2011, to read to kids from the Derrick Thomas Academy. He was joined by local author Shane Evans and some representatives from the Storling Dance Theater. Burton was in town to speak for the Culture House at Johnson County Community College for Black History Month, and he decided to stop by the Library on the way there!
The Missouri-Kansas Economic Border War - October 17, 2013
In recent years the Missouri-Kansas border war has taken on economic implications in the Kansas City area, with both states enticing businesses to jump across the state line. KMBC's Micheal Mahoney moderated a panel of experts discussing whether this practice is healthy or harmful. This discussion took place at the Kansas City Public Library on October 17, 2013.
Building a Gigabit City at the Kansas City Public Library
Kansas City Public Library & Womens Employment Network
Presenting the Money Matters Workshop series
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I went to Kansas City with Michelle and Amber and we laughed a whole bunch. These two, there's no one on earth quite like them. Amber and I also visited the Kansas City Public Library because the outside is giant books!
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