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Kansas City’s Public Library: Empowering the Community for 150 Years

• Author(s): Jason Roe, Matt Reeves

• Categories: History

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2024-10-15
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• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

From the humble beginnings of a single bookcase in 1873, the Kansas City Public Library grew into a bedrock cultural institution with an ambitious mission of bolstering the people’s welfare, inspiring lifelong learning, and empowering citizens through knowledge. Across one and a half centuries, Kansas Citians ranging from Walt Disney to entrepreneur Ewing Kauffman, civil rights activist Alvin Sykes, Mayor Kay Barnes, and Congressman Emanuel Cleaver II, have sought out the Kansas City Public Library’s resources for professional inspiration, personal respite, and community uplift. Kansas City’s public library is an indispensable agent of community empowerment. On its 150th anniversary, i...

The Kansas City Public Library Quarterly

• Author(s): Kansas City (Mo.) Public library

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1901
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Directory of Government Document Collections & Librarians

• Categories: Depository libraries

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1981
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Year Book

• Author(s): United States Engineers. 3d Volunteer (War with Spain)

• Categories: Spanish-American War, 1898

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1941
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Air Force Communications Service, Proposed Relocation (IL,MO)

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1977
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• Publisher: Unknown

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