Past News & Events

Call for Applicants for 2009 Friends of the Library Scholarship

	Submit your 500-1000 word orginal writing piece on the topic "What UMKC's libraries mean to me" for a chance to earn a $500 scholarship.
Award is available to degree seeking students from any school or discipline, with preference given to those with a cumulative gpa of 3.0 or higher. Applicants are advised that all materials become the property of the Friends upon submittal and may be used in promoting the University Libraries. Winner to be announced May 1. Click HERE for printable announcement flier.

BASEBALL, BOOKS, & BEER

UMKC Friends of the Library's 44th Annual Celebration

Featuring Kansas City Sports Columnist Joe Posnanski

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

5:00 - 7:30 PM at the

Tickets prices are:

$25 Members
$35 Guests
$50 ticket + 1 year membership!

Prices include admission, light hors d'oeuvres, wine, a variety of Boulevard Beers on tap, and a commemorative etched pint glass.

Joe will speak about his two baseball books, including his newest title, "The Machine". Published by William Morrow and debuting this summer, "The Machine" follows the legendary season of the 1975 World Champion Cincinnati Reds. Joe also will talk about Royals baseball and the summer he spent following the late, great, baseball ambassador, Buck O'Neil, which he chronicled in "The Soul of Baseball."

Help spread the word by printing & sharing a printable flyer

Thanks to all who donated - over 3 barrels of items collected.

UMKC University Libraries feed the mind - YOU helped feed the bodies of our neighbors in need.

Friends of the Library Help KC Rep's "CLAY" Take to the NEW YORK STAGE!
Kansas City Repertory Theatre purchased several hundred damaged or unsaleable used books from Friends of the Library last August. The books were used to construct one of the sets for their first show of the season, Clay, written and performed by Matt Sax. After closing at the Rep in late September, the show (and set) moved to New York's Lincoln Center where it runs through Nov. 8.

Matt Sax as Clay. (Photo credit, Don Ipock)	Rep staff members, Grace Hudson, Props Artisan, Sean Dane; Prop Shop Foreman; and Nancy Wagner, Soft Props Artisan, pose backstage in front of Book Wall set.

	"It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed." Paula Poundstone, comedienne and Friends of the Library USA national spokesperson.

UMKC Celebrates National Friends of the Library Week - Oct.19-25

Board Members distributed AlphaChallenger pen courtesy of Alphapointe Association for the Blind at the Miller Nichols Library to commemorate the week.

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