All Library locations will be closed Monday, May 27, for Memorial Day.
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Thursday, April 4, 2024
The Kansas City Public Library celebrates National Library Week, April 7 - 13. Highlights include recognizing the valuable contributions of Library wo...
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Thursday, October 19, 2023
An important chronicle of African American history in Kansas City – and beyond – is now available through the Library’s website, offering more than 70...
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Friday, October 13, 2023
Have a delightfully spirited Halloween season with a monstrously good mashup of scary story recommendations, frightfully fun films, and other creepily...
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Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Notice to all eBook and audiobook fans: On May 1, 2023, the original OverDrive mobile app will no longer work – it’s being discontinu...
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Tuesday, September 13, 2022
If you like following music trends, reading artist interviews, and deep-diving into archives of popular music publications, get amped up for the lates...
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Thursday, September 1, 2022
To mark Library Card Sign-up Month in September, we asked Kansas City Public Library staffers to share the favorite ways they use...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2022
The pop culture pipeline regularly feeds cinema screens and streaming services with characters and stories from the pages of comics and graphic nov...
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Tuesday, July 5, 2022
If you’re on a creative kick as part of our Summer Reading Program, Art Starts at Your Library, one of the most powerful tools at you...
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Monday, April 25, 2022
As the Library’s Big Read 2022 continues, we’re highlighting a number of films from and about Indigenous communities. Attend upcoming...
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Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Nobody talks trash like libraries. That’s too bad, really. Look at the gentle back-and-forth on Twitter between Los Angeles’ and Cincinnati’s pub...