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Tweet The Johnson County Library wants to know what local residents want to see from their library system — and they’re using the web to find out. PV resident Finn Bullers submits this update on the input process: What do you want for the future of the Johnson County Library? That is the question library [...]
Tweet Library service for northeast Johnson County could undergo radical changes over the next five years, according to the Johnson County Library Capital Improvement Plan approved by the board. Both the Corinth Library on Mission Road in Prairie Village and the Cedar/Roe Library in Roeland Park are scheduled to be replaced under the current plan. [...]
Tweet Well, bookworms: Your Wednesday nights just got brighter. Starting yesterday, the Corinth branch of the Johnson County Library will now be able to remain open on Wednesdays until 9 p.m. — the same time it closes Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. In January 2012, the county eliminated 29 staff positions from the library system’s budget, [...]
Tweet Okay. I want everybody to promise to remain calm. But I have some startling news to report: Remember the Little Free Library that popped up off 79th Street a few weeks ago? It’s bred. A new Little Free Library is now attractively posted in the front yard of a home on 67th Street just [...]
Tweet Sure, the Corinth branch of the Johnson County Library has a bigger collection — but something tells us it doesn’t offer the same opportunities for serendipitous fun. Prairie Village residents Echo and Karin McAdams have opened up a Little Free Library in front of their home at 4916 W. 78th Place, just north of Kansas [...]
Tweet Pleased parents — and even more pleased kids — gathered at Corinth Library Thursday for the open house unveiling the renovated “6 by 6″ space. The space is part of the Johnson County Library system’s early literacy skills program, which focuses on fostering six reading skills by the time kids have reached 6 years of age. [...]
Tweet The Corinth Library will be closed Jan. 31-Feb. 2 (that’s Tuesday through Thursday) while workers install radio frequency identification (RFID) equipment and add tags to books and other checkout materials. The library says that on-hold materials sent to the Corinth Library will be held a few extra days to allow for pickup when the [...]
Tweet In two months, the Corinth Library will join 11 other county branches in offering the system’s 6 by 6 early childhood literacy program — and it will have a new space to do it in. Construction is currently under way to create a new open area and to build learning stations specifically for the program, [...]
Tweet Faced with a smaller staff as a result of the county’s voluntary retirement incentive program, the Johnson County Library Board voted Wednesday to reduce the hours of operation at several of its branches effective Jan. 3, 2012. The Corinth branch will avoid the more drastic cuts being made at other branches, including Leawood, Oak [...]
Tweet The city of Prairie Village will be closing its offices at 1 p.m. today on account of the weather. Offices should open at 8 a.m. tomorrow morning. The city has also canceled the following meetings: Municipal Foundation scheduled for Feb. 1 at 5 p.m. Board of Zoning Appeals scheduled for Feb. 1st at 6 [...]
Tweet The Johnson County Library has recognized two local residents for their volunteer service to the system —three times over. Joan Berkley of Mission Hills and Warren Robinson of Fairway were recently given the library’s Triple Crown award for having served on all three of the boards associated with the library: the Library Board, the [...]
Tweet The youth services section located in the lower level of the Corinth Library will re-open tomorrow at 10 a.m. after being closed for 25 days as a result of the flooding that hit the area last month. The section had been scheduled to re-open earlier this week, but delays in getting the area re-carpeted [...]
