[3] Promoting reading to kids in local schools is one of the most fundamental services of a children’s librarian. And in her more than three decades at the Kansas City Public Library, Sandra Jones has gotten plenty of kids to read. But she’s never met a group quite like the one she recently faced – and tamed – at Banneker Elementary.
[5] The H&R Block Business and Career Center [6] was designed, in part, to help people get their own businesses up and running. Now, one local entrepreneur has crossed to the other side of the help desk, where, as a Library volunteer, she works with customers not unlike herself.
[8] Construction snarled traffic across midtown on a recent, steamy May afternoon in KC. But inside the Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public Library, a moment of quiet was being shared over a book.
[10] On a bright spring day last week at the Central Library, 18 fifth graders from Trailwoods Elementary pressed their palms to the glass and peered out the fourth-floor windows. To the north, the Renaissance Revival brownstone towers of the 120-year-old New York Life Building [11] loomed majestically.
[13] Jackson County Juvenile Center has its share of discipline issues. But none of them occurred while Nick Holmes visited once a week last summer to read books to the young men incarcerated there.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/KC%20Unbound/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/no-girls-allowed-unless-youre-charge
[4] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/13589#comment-form
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/volunteer-profile-enterprising-reader
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/business-career
[7] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/volunteer-profile-enterprising-reader#comments
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/few-good-volunteers
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/13446#comment-form
[10] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/magical-history-tour-area-5th-graders-learn-local-history-library
[11] http://kchistory.org/cgi-bin/showfile.exe?CISOROOT=/Building_Pr&CISOPTR=12&filename=17.pdf#search=%22new%20york%20life%22
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/13279#comment-form
[13] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/how-build-community-readers
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/13199#comment-form
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10501
[16] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10501?page=22
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10501?page=19
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10501?page=20
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10501?page=21
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10501?page=24
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10501?page=25
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10501?page=26
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10501?page=27
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10501?page=32
