The Westport and Bluford branches will be closed Wednesday, June 12 for staff training.
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Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Death Cafés are scheduled the second Wednesday of each month at the Plaza Branch. Related programming about advance directives will take place on Apri...
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Monday, March 11, 2024
Thank our community's volunteers. AmeriCorps Week is March 10-16, 2024....
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Thursday, November 30, 2023
For the fifth year, the Kansas City Public Library’s AmeriCorps VISTA Project is collecting donations of travel-sized personal care items for a hygien...
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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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Thursday, September 21, 2023
Do you know your numbers? The numbers of your blood pressure reading, that is. If you don’t, you’ll soon be able to take your blood pressure at you...
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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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Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Thanks, Kansas City, for stepping up. You responded in record numbers to the annual MLK Day of Service Hygiene Kit Drive conducted by...
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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...