Historical Sketch of the Kansas City Public Library, 1911-1936
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Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,93 MB
Release : 1937
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Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,93 MB
Release : 1937
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Author : Kansas City (Mo.). Public Library
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File Size : 11,30 MB
Release : 1937
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Author : Jason Roe
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 41,78 MB
Release : 2024-10-15
Category : History
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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, its continuity of purpose—and its place at the heart of the city’s civic culture—is clearer than ever. Ever since its formative years in a wild western setting, and spanning decades of urbanization and social upheaval, the spectrum of the Library’s history is inseparable from that of Kansas City. Generations of patrons have sought out its resources for self-improvement, community uplift, or as a safe space to exist without obligation or payment. This meticulously researched book explores the Library’s record of achievement, the challenges it has weathered, the diverse backgrounds of its supporters, and, in some cases, its historical shortcomings. Today the Library enriches its community with innovative programming (recognized with a National Medal for Museum and Library Service from the Institute of Museum and Library Services), cutting-edge technology, and a commitment to serve all members of the community.
Author : Wayne A. Wiegand
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,19 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 0190248009
Challenges conventional thinking and top-down definitions, instead drawing on the library user's perspective to argue that the public library's most important function is providing commonplace reading materials and public space. Challenges a professional ethos about public libraries and their responsibilities to fight censorship and defend intellectual freedom. Demonstrates that the American public library has been (with some notable exceptions) a place that welcomed newcomers, accepted diversity, and constructed community since the end of the 19th century. Shows how stories that cultural authorities have traditionally disparaged- i.e. books that are not "serious"- have often been transformative for public library users.
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Page : 1806 pages
File Size : 22,81 MB
Release : 1940
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Author : Marian Shaw
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Page : 2184 pages
File Size : 25,57 MB
Release : 1936
Category : Bibliography of bibliographies
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Author : Francis Asbury Sampson
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Page : 638 pages
File Size : 11,59 MB
Release : 1937
Category : Missouri
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Author : Kirke Mechem
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Page : 492 pages
File Size : 38,75 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Kansas
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Author : Kenneth A. Breisch
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 37,51 MB
Release : 2016-12-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1606064908
In the most comprehensive investigation of the Los Angeles Public Library’s early history and architectural genesis ever undertaken, Kenneth Breisch chronicles the institution’s first six decades, from its founding as a private library association in 1872 through the completion of the iconic Central Library building in 1933. During this time, the library evolved from an elite organization ensconced in two rooms in downtown LA into one of the largest public library systems in the United States—with architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue’s building, a beloved LA landmark, as its centerpiece. Goodhue developed a new style, fully integrating the building’s sculptural and epigraphic program with its architectural forms to express a complex iconography. Working closely with sculptor Lee Oskar Lawrie and philosopher Hartley Burr Alexander, he created a great civic monument that, combined with the library’s murals, embodies an overarching theme: the light of learning. “A building should read like a book, from its title entrance to its alley colophon,” wrote Alexander—a narrative approach to design that serves as a key to understanding Goodhue’s architectural gem. Breisch draws on a wealth of primary source material to tell the story of one of the most important American buildings of the twentieth century and illuminates the formation of an indispensible modern public institution: the American public library.
Author : Donald G. Davis
Publisher : Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 27,12 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
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