[3] It’s a Friday night at the Plaza Branch, and magic is in the air in the library’s teen section – in more ways than one. A dozen or so young patrons gather around tables, swapping cards and invoking the names of otherworldly beings: Alien Telepath, Phyrexian Marauder, Fist of Ironwood.
[5] The Tuesday before Thanksgiving last year, the L.H. Bluford Branch had an impromptu Turkey Day feast. “It was crazy. Kids just kept coming in droves,” remembers Mary Olive Thompson, assistant branch manager and children’s librarian at Bluford. “It really felt like Thanksgiving.”
[7] Kansas City is a big reading town. The Library’s circulation stats from last year prove it. Our most checked-out book: Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1980 novel Housekeeping, the book featured in our NEA-sponsored, community-wide Big Read program. Find out what other books and movies were most checked-out by KC’s reading class in 2010.
[9] Librarians have always connected people to stories that inform and shape their lives. But for one Central Reference Associate, books aren’t the only tools of the trade. Jean DuFresne’s mastery of beadmaking has grown alongside her career at the Kansas City Public Library. And now she’s also using her craft to benefit the lives of children with serious illnesses.
[11] At the Kansas City Public Library's North-East Branch, Christmas is in the air - sort of. As the gateway to knowledge for Kansas City's most culturally diverse neighborhood, the North-East Branch during the holidays takes on the spirit of its patrons. And with people from different lands come different ways of celebrating (or not celebrating) the season.
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[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/KC%20Unbound/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/plaza-branch-card-classics-its-magic
[4] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/12011#comment-form
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/help-harvesters-kids-caf-open-business-library
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/11964#comment-form
[7] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/what-were-librarys-most-checked-out-books-2010
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/what-were-librarys-most-checked-out-books-2010#comments
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/beads-inspiration
[10] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/11775#comment-form
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/north-east-noel
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/north-east-noel#comments
[13] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10501
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