[3] June 20, 2012
Every great collection has to begin somewhere. For the Black Archives of Mid-America [4], it was in the trunk of Horace Peterson’s car in 1970s Kansas City.
[3] Every great collection has to begin somewhere. For the Black Archives of Mid-America [4], it was in the trunk of Horace Peterson’s car in 1970s Kansas City.
[5] Summer Reading is upon us. The Library's branches are bustling with children piling into puppet shows and raising the roof at musical hoedowns, with teens texting and tweeting book reviews, and families dutifully logging reading hours to win prizes.
[7] It’s a famous, elemental creation story. Los Angeles, the early 1950s: Ray Bradbury sojourns to the basement of UCLA’s Lawrence Clark Powell Library armed with a bagful of dimes to bang out his now-classic lines like “It was a pleasure to burn” at ten cents an hour on a rented typewriter.
[9] Children who visit libraries early in life are more likely to return as they grow up. The same goes for art museums. This summer, the Kansas City Public Library is partnering with the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art [10] for a program designed to enhance young readers’ love of listening – and looking.
[12] In an age of texting, tweeting, and LOL-inducing memes [13], putting out a print zine [14] may sound a little 20th century. But there’s something to be said for publishing a story you can have and hold.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/KC%20Unbound/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/black-archives-mid-america-open-preservation
[4] http://www.blackarchives.org/
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/making-grade-reading-school-readiness
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/17489#comment-form
[7] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/remembering-ray-our-librarians-celebrate-late-ray-bradbury
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/17367#comment-form
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/summer-program-pairs-paintings-and-books-kemper-museum
[10] http://www.kemperart.org
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/17351#comment-form
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/calling-all-teens-send-your-zine-submissions-now
[13] http://knowyourmeme.com/
[14] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zine
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/17324#comment-form
[16] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10501
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10501?page=7
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10501?page=4
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10501?page=5
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10501?page=6
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10501?page=9
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10501?page=10
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10501?page=11
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10501?page=12
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/10501?page=32