Tag: MCPL

• I Knew I Was Right – Mid Continent Public Library

  

  I worked for MCPL, Mid Continent Public Library from 2010 – early 2013. Upon separating from the organization I wrote a strongly worded e mail to the library director Steven Potter. I expressed my disappointment in the library’s hiring policies, lack of diversity in staff and materials. I pretty much told him that the organization […]

  shannoninkansascity

  March 16, 2022

  books

  Kansas City Kansas Public Library, KCKPL, libraries, library, literacy advocacy, MCPL, Mid Continent Public Library

• Proposition L

  

  This November voters in the Kansas City area will be asked to decide whether a small tax increase should be implemented in order to improve the Mid Continent Public Library system.  Ordinarily I wouldn’t think twice about a measure such as this one.  I always vote in favor of improvements to schools, mass transit, parks […]

  shannoninkansascity

  June 24, 2016

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  African Americans, books, Hispanic Americans, Kansas City, libraries, literacy, local politics, MCPL, Mid Continent Public Libraries, Proposition L, reading, soccer moms