Filed under: Books and Reading | Tags: Books and Reading, CAFE 625, MAIN LIBRARY, Used Books for Sale
Cafe 625, at the Kansas City, Kansas Public Library’s Main Library, 625 Minnesota Ave., offers a daily special. Here’s the special menu for the rest of this week:
Tuesday, June 2 – baked potato bar, small salad, canned soda $5
Wednesday, June 3 – meatball sandwich, potato salad, canned soda $4
Thursday, June 4 – taco salad $4.50
Friday, June 5 – Rueben sandwich, chips, canned soda $4.25
While you’re at the cafe, be sure to browse the used book store for some gently used, right-priced books. And, browse the rest of the library, too – check out books, music CDs, DVDs and much more. Summer reading clubs kick-off this week, with programs for all ages, and no better excuse for a stack of books to read at your summer leisure!
Cafe 625 hours: Monday-Friday 10 am.-2 p.m.
Cafe 625 is operated by Kansas City Kansas Public Schools Nutrional Services.
Recently I’ve borrowed from my library several books, including Wicked (which I listened to on PlayAway, a book pre-loaded onto an MP3 player), a few movies on DVD and a music CD (Brett Dennen’s Hope for the Hopeless). I’ve read the Kansas City Star daily, the Wyandotte West weekly, and used the Internet to access other news sources. I’ve attended a program or two, and asked my librarian some reference questions.
Today I plugged all of that information into the Library Savings Calculator and found out that I “save” about $730 a month (about $9,000 annually) by using my library instead of having to buy books, newspapers, CDs, DVDs and subscriptions to all the online resources my library has to offer. (If I could just figure out how to spend more time browsing, reading, listening to and watching library materials, I could double my savings!)
Are you a patron of Kansas City, Kansas Public Library? Use the link above to the calculator and share your results with the library by sending an electronic postcard like this one:
Sonia, PR Coordinator – KCKPL
Filed under: Books and Reading | Tags: Books and Reading, Kansas, Library Program, WEST WYANDOTTE LIBRARY
Discuss Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam. This book by Pope Brock tells the true story of a goat gland quack who almost became governor of Kansas. Join other readers at 10 a.m., Thursday, May 7, Scooters at The Legends. This program is sponsored by the West Wyandotte Library, 1737 N. 82nd St., Kansas City, Kansas. Call (913) 596-5800 for more information.
I’m reading Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart Brown, MD, with Christopher Vaughan, founder of the Institute for Play (who knew there was an institute for that?). I’m not far into the book and already wondering how to make play more important in my life. According to the authors, it makes people more productive. I’d say that libraries are often places where we get to play at work: meeting creative people like authors, engaging in storytelling, helping patrons find books and other materials that let them pursue their interests, and generally, just reveling in the millions of worlds available when you open a book. When I get a chance to spend some time playing away from work, I like to scrapbook – though I’ll never catch up with the piles of photos or the digital ones not yet printed.
So, does your employer value the productivity and skills that play can bring to the workplace? Does your job incorporate ways to play, or is it a chore? Find more information on this topic – or any other you can imagine – by going to the library nearest you. Maybe you’ll discover that your favorite way to play is to get lost in a mystery novel, or to plunge into a biography or explore science through a nonfiction best-seller.
Sonia Smith, PR Coordinator – Kansas City, Kansas Public Library
