[3] The Kansas City Public Library encouraged patrons to get creative [4] in celebration of National Library Week (April 10-16), and a lot of readers heard the call. Check out a gallery of crafty book spine poems sent in by members of the community, and get ideas for making your own.
[6] There aren't many household items that you can stack into a pile and make poetry out of. Coat hanger hymns? Mop bucket sonnets? Not so much. Books, on the other hand, lend themselves well to verse – after all, they do have words printed on their spines. Watch a video on how you can make your own Book Spine Poem for National Library Week.
[8] Kids' art is fit for more than the refrigerator. We're reminded of this every year at the Kansas City Public Library during the annual Children's Bookmark Contest.
[10] The first time Carol Wallace heard "Canon in D [11]" was when she was working in the arts and music collection of the Old Main Library on McGee Street, managing the record collection.
[13] With enough time, effort, and research you really can change history. Just ask Alvin Sykes. Over the past several years, Sykes has built a reputation as a champion of the forgotten victims of racial violence, helping to bring about the re-opening of two Civil Rights cold cases. As Brad Stephens of KCTV5 reports [14], Sykes did most of that work within the walls of the Kansas City Public Library.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/KC%20Unbound/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/book-spine-poetry-stacking-verse
[4] http://www.kclibrary.org/nlw
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/13170#comment-form
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/video-how-write-book-spine-poetry
[7] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/13117#comment-form
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/my-kid-did-paint
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/13102#comment-form
[10] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/local-symphonies-score-library
[11] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvNQLJ1_HQ0&playnext=1&list=PL43018A7A886BF167
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/13053#comment-form
[13] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/video-alvin-sykes-uses-library-right-wrongs-past
[14] http://www.kctv5.com/news/27400261/detail.html
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/12990#comment-form
[16] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10501
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10501?page=23
[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=22
[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=28
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10501?page=32
