All Library locations will be closed Monday, May 27, for Memorial Day.
News Item
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...
News Item
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Winter FYI Book Club: "I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times" by Taylor Byas, 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award winner....
News Item
Monday, October 16, 2023
The Kansas City Public Library again is partnering with Charlie Hustle as part of the apparel company’s popular Communi-Tees program,...
News Item
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Do you know your numbers? The numbers of your blood pressure reading, that...
News Item
Monday, July 3, 2023
In war, amputees might be celebrated as heroes. But those with damaged faces endure a far different reception.
They “often caused feelings...
News Item
Thursday, October 20, 2022
The Library and local nonprofit Strawberry Week join for this year's Flowvember donation drive, collecting menstruation products ...
News Item
Wednesday, December 29, 2021
With the beginning of a new year comes the renewed commitment to shake up our usual routines. We pledge to learn a new skill, take a class or two, acq...
News Item
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
The Library began a partnership in October with Barrier Babes, a local nonprofit that will deliver 1,...
News Item
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
Want a read on the progress women are making in society, on where they once stood or stand now in their centuries-long struggle for equal access and o...
News Item
Monday, July 26, 2021
Stanley Banks' Blue Beat Syncopation: Selected Poems 1977-2002 is a frank meditation on the Black experience in Kansas City at t...