News Item The Library Thanks Kansas City’s AmeriCorps Volunteers for a Job Well Done Monday, March 11, 2024 AmeriCorps Thank our community's volunteers. AmeriCorps Week is March 10-16, 2024.... 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 2024 Hygiene Kit Donation Drive Kicks off at the Library for Annual MLK Day of Service Thursday, November 30, 2023 AmeriCorps 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... Read More
News Item Impact of Library’s Annual Hygiene Product Drive: Help to an Estimated 1,500 People Wednesday, January 18, 2023 AmeriCorps Thanks, Kansas City, for stepping up. You responded in record numbers to the annual MLK Day of Service Hygiene Kit Drive conducted by... Read More
News Item Join the Library for Community Conversations about The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together Thursday, September 23, 2021 Book Discussion Signature Events The Library and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation present a series of online community conversations centered around the book... Read More
News Item Join the Community Conversation of 'Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools' Thursday, July 22, 2021 Book Discussion Signature Events The Library and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation present a series of online community conversations centered around the book Pushout:... Read More
News Item Read and Learn with Pride: Celebrating LGBTQIA+ Stories Monday, June 7, 2021 Pride Month Reading Lists Book Group Films Youth and Family Pride Month in June commemorates the Stonewall riots in New York's Greenwich Village, which ignited the gay rights movement in the Un... Read More
News Item Pride Month Celebrates LGBTQIA+ Stories Monday, June 15, 2020 Pride Month LGBTQIA+ Reading Lists Digital Services LGBT Pride Month in June commemorates the Stonewall riots in New York's Greenwich Village, which ignited the gay rights movement in t... Read More
News Item Celebrating Pride Month 2019 Saturday, June 15, 2019 Pride Month LGBTQIA+ LGBT Pride Month in June commemorates the Stonewall riots in New York's Greenwich Village, which ignited the gay rights movement in t... Read More
News Item KCHistory, Civil War Websites Undergoing Maintenance Monday, November 12, 2018 Local History KC History Civil War on the Western Border Missouri Valley The Library is currently migrating its large collection of digital historic images to a new software platform. An unfortunate consequence of our da... Read More