News Item Longtime NPR Host Meets ‘Best Strangers in the World,’ Our Latest Book Club Selection Monday, April 22, 2024 FYI Book Group 150th Anniversary NPR's Ari Shapiro is the author of this season's FYI Book Club selection.... Read More
News Item Step Inside Central Library’s Film Vault to Scratch Your Movie Itch Wednesday, March 20, 2024 Films KC History Since January, the Central Library's Stanley H. Durwood Vault has been screening daily movies.... Read More
News Item Memories of ‘The Wiz,’ and Coming of Age Inspire This Award-Winning Poetry Collection Thursday, February 29, 2024 FYI Book Group Book Discussion Book Group Maya Angelou Book Award Winter FYI Book Club: "I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times" by Taylor Byas, 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award winner.... Read More
News Item "Growing Together" With Kansas City Community Gardens Classes Tuesday, February 27, 2024 Library Services Library Locations The Kansas City Community Gardens offers basic gardening classes at Library locations in March and April 2024.... Read More
News Item Get In the Halloween Spirit With Fang-tastic Library Resources Friday, October 13, 2023 Halloween Books Reading Lists Films Digital Services Have a delightfully spirited Halloween season with a monstrously good mashup of scary story recommendations, frightfully fun films, and other creepily... Read More
News Item Library Joins Celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Monday, May 1, 2023 Films Congress established Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month in 1992, corresponding its timing in May to two histor... Read More
News Item Two Compelling Exhibitions Enter Final Weeks at Central Library Tuesday, February 14, 2023 Library Locations Two innovative art exhibitions at the Central Library are nearing their closing dates, but time to see them hasn’t entirely run out. He... Read More
News Item Property Purchase Sets the Stage for Enhanced, Expanded Services at Bluford Branch Thursday, January 26, 2023 Library Locations The Library is thrilled to announce the purchase of additional property near the Lucile H. Blu... Read More
News Item Black History Month 2023 Wednesday, January 25, 2023 Films As we commemorate Black History Month, there are many ways to discover stories celebrating African American experiences. Check out a... Read More
News Item 'A History Going Back More Than 200 Years': Writer Pays Lyrical Tribute to Library’s North-East Branch Tuesday, December 27, 2022 Library Locations All Kansas City Public Library locations see patrons of every interest, need, and want in search of not only materials like books and magazines but... Read More