Kansas City, Kansas Public Library
Kansas City, Kansas Public Library (KCKPL) | |
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Location | Kansas City, Kansas |
Branches | 5 |
Collection | |
Size | 368,888[1] |
Access and use | |
Circulation | 1,074,126[1] |
Population served | 150,884[1] |
Other information | |
Director | Carol Levers[1] |
Website | https://kckpl.org/ |
Map | |
Kansas City, Kansas Public Library (KCKPL) is the public library system of Kansas City, Kansas, headquartered in the Main Library.[2] The Kansas City Kansas Public Schools Board of Education controls the library system.[3]
Branches[]
The library system consists of five branches.
- Main Library
- Mr. and Mrs. F.L. Schlagle Library at Wyandotte County Lake Park - It opened on June 26, 2001.[4]
- South Branch Library in Argentine,[5] with 21,000 square feet (2,000 m2) of space. It opened in 2012. The name was chosen to reflect that it serves the entire southern region of the city and not a single neighborhood.[6]
- Turner Community Library
- West Wyandotte Library
History[]
It formerly operated the Argentine Carnegie Library which opened in 1911 in a storefront and received its own Carnegie building in 1917.[7] By 1998 it, on the National Register of Historic Places, was the sole remaining Carnegie library in the city.[8] In 2012 the current South Branch opened at a cost of $6 million, one third of which was acquired by the fundraisers of local residents. The school district agreed to pay for the rest if residents raised $1.5 million to $2 million. A former grocery store was demolished to make way for the current library, and the school district took possession of the former library.[6]
References[]
- ^ a b c d "Kansas City, Kansas Public Library". libraries.org. Retrieved April 19, 2020.
- ^ "Libraries". Kansas City, Kansas Public Library. Kansas City, Kansas Public Library. 2021-09-21. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
Administration Office 625 Minnesota Ave. Kansas City, KS 66101
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Hours & Locations". Kansas City, Kansas Public Library. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
Main Library [...] Location: 625 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, KS 66101[...]KCKPL is governed by the Kansas City Kansas Public Schools (USD #500) Board of Education.
- ^ "Mr. and Mrs. F.L. Schlagle Library". Kansas City, Kansas Public Library. Kansas City, Kansas Public Library. 2021-09-08. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "South Branch Library". . Kansas City, Kansas Library. Retrieved 2020-04-18.
The South Branch Library is located in Kansas City, Kansas's Argentine Neighborhood[...]
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b Bormann, Dawn (2012-09-26). "Argentine residents ready to unveil a new library". Kansas City Star. Retrieved 2020-04-19.
- ^ "Argentine". Kansas City, Kansas Public Library. 1998-01-29. Archived from the original on 1998-01-29. Retrieved 2020-04-18.
- ^ "Argentine". Kansas City, Kansas Public Library. 1998-07-02. Archived from the original on 1998-07-02. Retrieved 2020-04-18.
External links[]
- Official website
- Kansas City, Kansas Public Library on Facebook
- Kansas City, Kansas Public Library on Twitter
- Kansas City, Kansas Public Library (kckpl.lib.ks.us) at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
Coordinates: 39°06′54″N 94°37′30″W / 39.11500°N 94.62500°W
- Public libraries in Kansas
- Education in Kansas City, Kansas