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Title: Libraries Work Together to Expand Their Offerings Across the Area
Description: Article describes efforts by the three major public library systems in the Metropolitan Area - The Kansas City Public Library, Mid-Continent Public Library, and Johnson County Public Llibrary - to integrate their online catalogs to allow for one search of all three library collections. Another plan calls for one library card for all three library systems.
Date: 2013-02-27
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Kansas City Public Library
Description: Interior view taken at an unidentified Kansas City Public Library location during Children's Book Week in 1923. In addition to the five unidentified children, various children's posters and books are in view. Probably was taken in one of the library's branch locations.
Date: 1923
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Public Library
Description: Interior view, taken in the Main branch of the Kansas City Public Library located at 9th and Locust in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Identified on the back of the photograph as the Art Department.
Date: 1952
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Public Library
Description: Interior view, taken in the Main branch of the Kansas City Public Library located at 9th and Locust in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Identified on the back of the photograph as the Art Department.
Date: 1952
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Children at the Swinney Branch Library
Description: Children seated at tables inside the Swinney Branch Library, located inside the E. F. Swinney Public School on W. 47th Street, between Holly and West Prospect Place (Jarboe).
Date: 1915
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Public Library
Description: Interior view taken at the Plaza branch of the Kansas City Public Library located at 48th and Main in the Country Club Plaza. Taken on the main entry floor looking toward the southwest with the information service desk, main entrance and circulation desk in view. Celebration taking place is the grand closing of the building held on December 28, 2001. Kelly McIniry is standing on the far right.
Date: 2001-12
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Public Library
Description: Library employee identified as Paul Liter working in the bindery area of the Kansas City Public Library, Main branch at 9th and Locust in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Public Library
Description: Interior view, taken in the Main branch of the Kansas City Public Library located at 9th and Locust in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. View includes four unidentified adults looking at a microfilm projector. Exact location in building not given.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Public Library
Description: Interior view, taken in the Main branch of the Kansas City Public Library located at 9th and Locust in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. View includes a motion picture projector and operator with both children and adults looking at the projection. Other people can be seen in the background as well as a library desk with library personnel.
Date: 1950~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Public Library
Description: Unidentified employees working in the bindery area of the Kansas City Public Library, Main branch at 9th and Locust in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Public Library
Description: Interior view, taken in the Main branch of the Kansas City Public Library located at 12th and Oak in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. View believed to have been taken on theeast side of the first floor showing a part of the book collection and reading area. Woman in view is librarian Idris Smith.
Date: 1960~/1969~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Public Library
Description: Unidentified employees working in the bindery area of the Kansas City Public Library, Main branch at 9th and Locust in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Identified as preparation work for sewing in the bindery process.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Public Library
Description: Unidentified library employee working in the bindery area of the Kansas City Public Library, Main branch at 9th and Locust in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Public Library, Bindery
Description: Unidentified employees working in the bindery area of the Kansas City Public Library, Main branch at 9th and Locust in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas City Public Library Building at 9th and Locust
Description: Unframed photograph (22.5" x 28.5") of the Kansas City Public Library Main branch at 9th and Locust streets.
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Kansas City Public Library Reading Room
Description: Matted, unframed drawing (15.75" x 17.5") of the reading room at the Kansas City Public Library Main branch at 9th and Locust streets in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The pen and ink with charcoal drawing was done by F. Miller.
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Kansas City Public Library Banner
Description: Banner (30 in. x 44 in.), gold with blue lettering that includes logo for the Kansas City Public Library. Text on banner: "KCPL, Separate! Celebrate! November 8, 1988!" Attached to brass rod.Kansas City Public Library separated from the Kansas City Public School District at this time by the election process and became a separate library district, retaining their same boundary lines.
Date: 1988
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Kansas City Public Library
Description: Unidentified employee working in the bindery area of the Kansas City Public Library, Main branch at 9th and Locust in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1940~/1949~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Local Libraries Offer Up Much More than Books
Description: Article describes various initiatives by Kansas City-area public libraries to introduce new technologies and diversified programming in order to attract patrons and remain relevant in an age when book circulation is declining. One new technology spotlighted is the Expresso Book Machine at the Mid-Continent Public Library's Woodneath Branch, which prints and binds self-published manuscripts. The Kansas City (MO) Public Library system provides a wide range of programs, such as lectures, films, exhibits and theatrical productions, to attract new patrons to its locations. Likewise, the Cass County Public Library has placed a greater emphasis on its public programming and community outreach.
Date: 2014-02-26
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Kansas City Public Library
Description: Interior view taken at the Plaza branch of the Kansas City Public Library located at 48th and Main in the Country Club Plaza. Area in view is of the children's section, looking to the south.
Date: 2001-12
Object Type: Photograph

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