What are you doing at the library today? Working! I am putting books on hold to fill Teacher Assistant requests. We can help teachers supplement their classroom books with items from our library system.
How long have you worked at the library? I have worked here 5 ½ years. I started as a sub and now am working half-time.
What is the best part of your job? Working with the customers and the staff.
How To Escape The Highway Patrol: An Interview With Joe Posnanski
Since 1996, Joe Posnanski has sweetened the dulling pain of thousands of Kansas City sports fans.
His columns at the Kansas City Star, single-handedly ushered me through two of the darkest eras in Kansas City sports: the Tony Pena Jr./Angel Berroa fiasco and the post-Saleaumua decline of the Chiefs.
What brings you to the Library today? We’re here picking up mom’s books.
How long have you been coming to the library? FOREVER!
What do you usually check out from the library? Mainly books and sometimes random movies
What’s your favorite thing to do at the library? I love Teen Photo club! We take random pictures, play games, win prizes and hang out with friends. It makes the library noisy for once!
The Fiftieth Anniversary of To Kill A Mockingbird: An Interview with Harper Lee's Biographer, Charles J. Shields
Since the release of To Kill A Mockingbird fifty years ago, Harper Lee has acquired a very distinct group of readers: the young, the old, and everyone in between.
Recently, I had the chance to talk with Dan Eaton, lead singer of Queens Club. Queens Club was recently on the cover of Ink Magazine and their first album Young Giants came out on Tooth and Nail Records earlier this summer.
How long has Queens Club been together? - Queens Club has been together roughly 2 1/2 years now, we've been touring for about 1 1/2 of those years.
Chief Meteorologist, Bryan Busby has been working at KMBC-TV since 1985. In that time, he has established himself as one of Kansas City’s favorite weathermen. In addition to forecasting the weather, Busby has proved to be something of a polymath, having established himself as both a concert timpanist and the Principal Guest Conductor of the Kansas City Youth Symphony. Recently, I had the chance to interview Mr. Busby about the historical significance of last week’s heat wave, our weather’s legendary mood swings and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
What are you doing at the library today? I am a substitute library clerk. This fall I will be presenting storytime on Tuesday and Wednesday at 10:00 am.
How long have you worked at the library? Three years. I started as a page and moved up to sub.
What is the best part of your job? Definitely the customer interaction. I love helping and visiting with our patrons.
Here is a very brief and incomplete synopsis of Winter’s Bone, Daniel Woodrell’s dark portrait of the Ozarks : the only way teenager Ree Dolly can save her family is to get her father to turn himself into the law. There are two large obstacles that prevent this from happening, one being that she doesn’t know where her father is and secondly, the people who do know where he is don’t like questions.