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The Kansas City Public Library dates back to 1873 when the Kansas City Board of Education resolved to begin a public library. Today, 130 years later, the Library system is made up of ten locations - the Central Library and nine branches - and serves 239,000 in-district customers and approximately a million and a half from the surrounding metropolitan area. More than 1,600,000 items comprise the collection including books, audios, videos, CDs, magazines and newspapers, local history materials and the resources of the World Wide Web. Customers may also use public computers, attend children and adult programs, and schedule any of the system's community meeting rooms. The Kansas City Public Library is the keeper of a rich collection of words, ideas and images - a retrospective of the world's past, present and future. The Library continues to evolve as a free multidimensional place for all people to access its resources and share in community experiences.