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Title: Editorial Forum: On to Kansas City! [and] Conference Tips: In Kansas City
Description: Photos and general information about Kansas City emphasizing tourist interests for "the sixtieth annual conference of the American Library Association in Kansas City" in 1938, including a quiz about national rankings of the city in various aspects (size, industrial production, transportation, buildings, etc.), a map of the Downtown retail district, etc.
Date: 1938-06-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Kansas City Public Library Helps Feed Local Hobby Horses
Description: Article about the publicity project of the Kansas City Public Library featuring hobbies and hobbyists, with books, posters, displays, and "neighborhood meetings," etc. through its various branches.
Date: 1941-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: A Library Book Fair
Description: Photos and article about the "unique book fair" held by the "Central Branch of the Kansas City (Mo.) Public Library" with displays of antiques, objects from foreign countries, and a miniature model house, etc.
Date: 1939-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: City-Wide Library Week
Description: Illustration and article about the "city-wide 'Visit Your Library' Week" at the Kansas City Public Library, headed by "Miss Irene Gentry, acting librarian," and involving the following people and institutions in its publicity campaign: (1) Kansas City Public Service Company streetcars, (2) Arthur Swanson, the president of the Kansas City Junior College, (3) D. W. Morris, a speech teacher there, (4) books signed by black authors, (5) local newspapers including the Kansas City Star and Kansas City Journal-Post, and (6) the author of the article and chairman of publicity for the library, Dorothea Hyle, etc.
Date: 1938-03-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: How Children Learn about Trade Books in Kansas City
Description: Map, photos, and article about the "[l]ocation of the principal bookshops and branch libraries in Kansas City," with special reference to books and their promotion for children and juveniles. Description or mention of several branch libraries and bookstores or department stores with book sections, including the Frank Glenn Book Store, the Cramer Book Store, the Baptist Book Store, the Bennett Schneider Book Store, the Fred Harvey Book Shop, the Emery, Bird, Thayer & Company, Kline's Store, the Jones Store, the George B. Peck Dry Goods Company, and the Catholic Book Store, etc.
Date: 1939-08-26
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: A Library Moves into a Community Center
Description: Photos and article about the installment of "[a] branch of the Kansas City Public Library" into the Jewish Community Center, also home to the Resident Theater, "fast becoming an outstanding Little Theater group." Description of the library's valuable books, community center functions, and lecture series sponsorship at the Music Hall with "such prominent speakers as Dorothy Thompson, John Masaryk, Fiorello LaGuardia, Pierre Von Paasen, and Orson Welles."
Date: 1940-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

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