All Library locations will be closed Monday, May 27, for Memorial Day.
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Thursday, February 29, 2024
Winter FYI Book Club: "I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times" by Taylor Byas, 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award winner....
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Friday, October 6, 2023
Taylor Byas is the winner of the third annual Maya Angelou Book Award for her debut poetry collection I...
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Thursday, August 24, 2023
The Maya Angelou Book Award reading committee has selected five finalists for the third annual national award, which is presented by...
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Monday, February 6, 2023
The system’s first branch – the oldest in Kansas City – is marking its 125th birthday with a week of remembrances, appearances, and othe...
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Monday, January 30, 2023
With Kansas City International Airport's new single terminal now scheduled to open on February 28, 2023, the Library's Missouri Valley Special C...
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Tuesday, October 11, 2022
The Maya Angelou Book Award reading committee has selected four finalists for the second annual award, which is presented by the Kansas City Public...
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Friday, October 7, 2022
In celebration of KC Oktoberfest, the Library's Missouri Valley Special Collections highlights the city’s German Ame...
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Friday, August 5, 2022
What’s Your KCQ?, on which the Kansas City Public Library and The Kansas City Star collaborate to answer reader-submitted questi...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2022
The Library and two institutional partners – the Local Investment Commission (LINC) and the Black Archives of Mid-America – are being ho...
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Friday, April 22, 2022
David Izzard recently discovered two record albums he’d checked out in 1961 – they were 22,276 days overdue. In 1961, late fees were 2 cents a day, wh...