All Library locations will be closed Monday, May 27, for Memorial Day.
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Tuesday, March 2, 2021
You’ve got an idea for a business, but you’re not sure how to take your vision from back of the napkin to balance sheet. How can you fi...
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Monday, February 1, 2021
Each year, the Library partners with the Local Investment Commission (LINC) and the Black Archives of Mid-America to...
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Monday, July 20, 2020
The Missouri Valley Room in the Central Library is now accepting appointments for visitors to conduct special collections research. L...
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Friday, January 31, 2020
Each year, the Library partners with the Local Investment Commission (LINC) and the Black Archives of Mid-America to...
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Monday, December 30, 2019
With the beginning of a new year comes the renewed commitment to shake up our usual routines. We tell ourselves we’re going to learn a new skill, take...
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Thursday, October 3, 2019
It’s fall, y’all, and the Library is kicking off the Halloween season with a monstrously good mashup of haunted local history tales, scary story recom...
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Friday, September 27, 2019
As information discovery has evolved, so has the Kansas City Public Library. We’ve launched a new Community Reference Team to help pa...
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Friday, August 9, 2019
This week marks 43 years since Ralph Steadman visited a muggy Kansas City to cover the 1976 Republican National Convention for...
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Tuesday, April 23, 2019
The Library joins the Kansas City community in saying a fond, grateful goodbye to Henry Bloch, one of the city’s greatest entrepreneu...
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Thursday, March 28, 2019
Is Kansas City the home of baseball's original fans? The almanac On This Day in America credits a local newspaper, presumably T...