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In The News

New Acquisition—Lichen: Rambles in the Colorado Front Range

Take a closer look at one of the Library's newest acquisitions, "Lichen: Rambles in the Colorado Front Range" by Rhiannon Alpers. 

FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Events

Breakthrough Listen: The Search for Ourselves Among the Stars

In this lecture, Dr. Andrew Siemion discusses advances in astrobiology and the search for extraterrestrial life.

MAR 27, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Hedgehog

Linda Hall Library Hedgehog Number 69, 2024

See the most recent issue of the Linda Hall Library Hedgehog.

In The News

Green Reads: The Intersectional Environmentalist

This book provides a clear outline of what intersectional environmentalism is and why it is imperative to the sustainability movement.

JANUARY 31, 2025
Climate Change and Food Security in Asia Pacific by MD Saidul Islam and Edson Kieu
In The News: May 1

Green Reads: Climate Change and Food Security in Asia Pacific

H is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z by Elizabeth Kolbert
In The News: Apr 1

Green Reads: H is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z

View of Greenwich Observatory from the north. 1676 Etching
In The News: Mar 19

New Acquisition: John Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis

Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis
In The News: Feb 28

Green Reads: Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis

Map from the Himmelskarte, printed lithographically, which presents a stunning image of the night sky.
In The News: Feb 25

Honoring Elinor Eisemann, 1932-2025

The Intersectional Environmentalist
In The News: Jan 31

Green Reads: The Intersectional Environmentalist

Wing of a European Roller (Corracias garrulus), by Albrecht Dürer, 1500-1512 Albertina, Vienna.
In The News: Jan 23

From Frescoes to Field Guides: A Journey Through the History of Bird Illustration

Sustainability for the Forgotten
In The News: Jan 3

Green Reads: Sustainability for the Forgotten

The Forms of Water in Clouds & Rivers, Ice & Glaciers / by John Tyndall ... with Twenty-Five Illustrations Drawn and Engraved under the Direction of the Author. 6th ed. London: King, 1876. Print.
In The News: Dec 18

Happy Holidays from the Linda Hall Library

A Selection of Photographs of Stars, Star-Clusters and Nebulae, by Isaac Roberts, 1893
In The News: Dec 4

The World's Fabric

The Gardeners Dictionary Frontispiece
In The News: Nov 20

Gardens of Knowledge: Cultivating Science and Information in Early Modern Horticulture Books

Sailing Ships image 1
In The News: Nov 12

New Acquisition: Sailing Ships and Lightning in Gold

Events

Ecological Design: The Olmsted Brothers' Legacy

How the Olmsted Brothers' design solutions provide insights into today's ongoing concerns about water management, sustainable urban planning, & more.

JUN 16, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Events

Moon Trees: Living Testaments to Project Apollo

Explore the history of Colonel Stuart Roosa's moon trees and the legacy of this little-known Apollo experiment. Click Watch Now to view the recording.

JUL 20, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Frontispiece from the Prodromus, where we see seven figures gathered in an imagined pavilion. From left to right, the astronomers are Johannes Hevelius, Wilhelm IV, the Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel, Ulugh Beg, Ptolemy, Tycho Brahe, and Giovanni Riccioli.
Press Release: Nov 12

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and Linda Hall Library Present All-New Multi-Cultural, Multi-Faith Advancement of Astronomy Exhibition

Frontispiece from the Firmamentum Sobiescianum
In The News: Nov 12

Mapping the Heavens

“View from Point Sublime, Looking East,” chromolithograph after drawing by William Henry Holmes, in Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District, by Clarence Dutton, Atlas, pl. XV, 1882.
In The News: Nov 8

Perspectives on the Grand Canyon: Willian Henry Holmes

Book Digital Scanner - close up
In The News: Nov 1

Linda Hall Library Offers Free Digital Scans to Former Fellows

Science2Art 2024 artwork
In The News: Oct 2

Annual Art Display and Online Auction Benefitting KC STEAM Programs Held at Linda Hall Library for Third Consecutive Year

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
In The News: Sept 18

Green Reads: Cobalt Red

Mary Ward Sketches With the Microscope - 1 of 14 of the handcolored lithographed plates in the book
In The News: Aug 28

New Acquisition: Sketches With the Microscope

Linda Hall Library Exterior
In The News: July 19

Linda Hall Library Names Anne Dema as Chair of the Board of Trustees

Linda Hall Library Hedgehog Number 69, 2024 cover
In The News: July 16

Linda Hall Library Hedgehog Number 69, 2024

Linda Hall Library and Nelson-Atkins receive NEH grant award
In The News: July 9

Nelson-Atkins and Linda Hall Library Awarded Climate Planning Grant, Ongoing Initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities

A woman programs and operates the FLAC, or Florida Automatic Computer, in A Survey of Domestic Electronic Digital Computing Systems, by Martin H. Weik, 1955, p. 48.
In The News: June 28

New Acquisition: A Survey of Domestic Electronic Digital Computing Systems, 1955

Sonia Robles
In The News: June 21

Linda Hall Library Announces 2024-25 Fellowships

Photo of Scott Perich, Linda Hall Library Vice President of Exhibitions and Project Management
In The News: May 15

Scott Perich Named New Vice President of Exhibitions and Project Management

Handwritten astrological computations, in two different pens or hands, on a slip of paper inserted into the Library copy of Tractatus astrologicus, by Luca Gaurico, 1552 (Linda Hall Library)]
In The News: May 1

New Acquisition: Tractatus Astrologicus

Linda Hall Library arboretum viburnums
In The News: Apr 19

Linda Hall Library Arboretum Receives PGASLA Kessler Legacy Award

Titlepage, fine paper issue, Venice edition, Sidereus Nuncius cropped
In The News: Apr 4

Three Bright Galilean Stars: Three Copies of Sidereus Nuncius in Kansas City

Joannes Regiomontanus, In laudem operis Calendarij. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 1485. Leaf B5r.
In The News: Apr 3

A Visual History of Eclipses

Linda Hall Library Manager of Strategic Partnerships, Kaylee Peile, interviewing Women in STEM advocate Libby Allman for a YouTube series.
In The News: Mar 22

Kaylee Peile, Director of Development, Selected for Centurions Leadership Program

Linda Hall Library team accepting 2023 STEM Outreach Partner of the Year award from UMKC
In The News: Mar 21

Linda Hall Library Receives UMKC Vanguard Award

Liber Ignis title page
In The News: Mar 8

New Acquisition: Liber Ignis

Events

How Do I Become a Cyber Security Professional

An interactive Q & A session featuring a panel of cyber security professionals. This event had ended. Click on Watch Now to the view the recording.

APR 15, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Events

New Insights into Energy Efficiency in Manufacturing Operations

This Science Matters Lunch & Learn program will be presented in person at Kansas City Public Library-Central Library in the Helzberg Auditorium.

JUN 18, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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