All Library locations will be closed Monday, May 27, for Memorial Day.
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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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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, July 12, 2022
Don’t have the tools to connect to the internet and manage your personal online needs? Now you can borrow a Chromebook computer from the...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Quindaro only lasted for six years—but one hundred sixty years later, it still fascinates people for its links to the Underground Railroad....
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Friday, March 4, 2022
Jack Johnson was one of the most famous people in the world in February 1912, having pummeled Jim Jeffries 19 months earlier in the “Fight of the Cent...
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Tuesday, February 22, 2022
The Kansas City Public Library is involved in many projects to serve local community members through digital inclusion services. For example, our job...
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Tuesday, October 12, 2021
During U.S. Media Literacy Week (October 25 – 29, 2021), organizations across the country promote the importance of media literacy ed...
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Tuesday, July 27, 2021
As part of a groundbreaking effort to improve the content of the crowdsourcing encyclopedia, particularly where it focuses on people, places, and thin...
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Tuesday, May 11, 2021
The Kansas City Public Library is joining local efforts to facilitate a new federal program offering assistance to Kansas City-area residents and fami...