Celebrate Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with the Library. 💮🌊 This display was created by our Waldo Branch staff to share books, information, and resources. 📚
Find AANHPI programming and media recommendations at kclibrary.org/news.
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We are so honored that, all the way from Pennsylvania, fifth-grader Elliette Long made a diorama of our Community Bookshelf. 📚
Elliette, who’s never visited Kansas City, used her imagination and photos she found online to reimagine the design. ✨
Read more of her story at kclibrary.org/news
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Kansas City used to look a whole lot different. Back in the 1850s, bluffs up to 120 feet tall hugged the Missouri River. These natural barriers made growth and business in Kansas City difficult. Then, an enterprising priest named Father Bernard Donnelly recruited hundreds of Irish immigrants to level the limestone and excavate our city. ⛏️☘️
Kansas City took decades to finish the grading process. Most of the work lasted until the 1880s, according to Pat O’Neill, a local history expert who wrote the book, “From the Bottom Up: The Story of the Irish in Kansas City.” Some accounts put the end date even later — at the turn of the century.
In the meantime, Kansas City was a certified muddy mess, knee deep at some points.
🎧 Hear the whole story of Kansas City’s battle with the bluffs in our episode “Carving Kansas City out from limestone”. Link in bio.
📷: @kclibrary
We'd like to thank @bluecrossblueshieldkc for sponsoring eight weeks of @nickifitkc classes. Because of their support, we are able to bring the community free HIIT, MixxedFit, and yoga classes.
Find all classes at kclibrary.org/calendar
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Connecting Kansas City one trail at a time. 🚲 Join the Library, @kcdesigncenter , and @godowntownkc at the Central Library on May 11 starting at 5 p.m. to view a Greenline KC showcase proposed by students working with the Kansas City Design Center.
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Crafting and community. ❤️✂️ Join us at the North-East Branch on May 12 starting at 6 p.m. to make paper garlands together!
The North-East Craft Circle meets every second Tuesday of the month. See all our Library events at kclibrary.org/calendar.
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World Collage Day is this Saturday! 🎨 Join us at the Central Library for a freeform, drop-in collage lab to build community, spark creativity, and increase collaboration on May 9 starting at 1 p.m.
Reserve your spot at kclibrary.org/events.
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Need help navigating the world of ever-evolving technology? Tech Access now has expanded drop-in hours thanks to our new AmeriCorps members. Our team can help you complete online forms, create online accounts, troubleshoot your devices, and more.
To view our hours and locations, visit kclibrary.org/techaccess.
🌟 A new exhibition is opening at the Central Library this week, and you're invited! Stop by on Wednesday, May 6, starting at 5 p.m. for 'Calls From Home: Artistic Responses on Unsettled Ground.' The show features both traditional and experimental art, exploring themes like nature, identity, memory, and community.
UMKC students in an upper-level museum studies class curated, organized, and installed the exhibition with support from Izabel Galliera, associate professor of Art History, and Craig Auge, the Library’s exhibitions coordinator, and it runs through June 14.
Reserve your spot at kclibrary/org/events.
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After a quick trip around the world, these KC books are back from their surprise trip! 📚 Do you think they brought back any souvenirs? 🤔
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There are only a few more days to visit 'We Hold These Truths,' an exhibition by Kansas City poet and visual artist José Faus at the Central Library.
The exhibition, part of the Library's 250 & Counting series, features a collection of thought-provoking blackout poems based on the Declaration of Independence. 📜✒️
View these poems before May 3. Learn more at kclibrary.org/exhibitions.
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