All Library locations will be closed Monday, May 27, for Memorial Day.
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Tuesday, February 28, 2023
If your to-read pile needs a refresh, check out collections of recent winners and nominees for book awards ranging from the Carnegie Medal for Excelle...
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Friday, February 24, 2023
The Library launches a new season of its popular classes for beginn...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2023
February is National Library Lovers' Month, and you can celebrate by making use of our fantastic resources, visiting your favorite Li...
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Thursday, August 25, 2022
The Veterans Writing Workshop is designed to help veterans, active military, and their family members develop writing and narrative skills t...
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Wednesday, January 12, 2022
The Kansas City Public Library is continuing the second season of its popular online classes for beginning and intermediate-level writers interested i...
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Friday, December 3, 2021
What fiction books were winners with Library staff in 2021? From pop culture potboilers to heavy-hitting history reads, check o...
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Friday, December 3, 2021
What books from the past year really resonated with our staff? From pop culture page-turners to mind-melting history reads, we’ve highlighted some...
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Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Have a delightfully wicked Halloween season with a monstrously good mashup of scary story recommendations, frightfully fun films, and other creepily c...
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Wednesday, October 20, 2021
The Kansas City Public Library is continuing the second season of its popular online classes for beginning and intermediate-level writers interested i...
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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...