News Item Longtime NPR Host Meets ‘Best Strangers in the World,’ Our Latest Book Club Selection Monday, April 22, 2024 FYI Book Group 150th Anniversary NPR's Ari Shapiro is the author of this season's FYI Book Club selection.... 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 Renovated Space in Central Library Adds Exciting New Services, Strengthens Existing Ones Tuesday, November 14, 2023 Community Resources Next Chapter 150th Anniversary The north side of the Central Library’s third floor – an area that once housed a reference desk and row after row of books – has just reopened as the... Read More
News Item Where to Find Vital Services? Library’s Innovative Street Sheet Is a Guide Monday, July 24, 2023 Community Resources The Street Sheet is often used by unhoused Kansas Citians looking for clothing, food, shelter, and financial assistance.... Read More
News Item What’s it like to be evicted? Exhibit at the Library explores the experience. Tuesday, June 21, 2022 Community Resources Through photographs, video storytelling, and spatial elements, Evicted is an immersive exhibition illuminates the harrowing experience of evi... Read More
News Item Mayukh Sen Spotlights the Stories, Struggles of Immigrant Women Who Helped Make American Food Cuisine What It Is Wednesday, February 23, 2022 FYI Book Group In his new book Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America, James Beard Award-winning food writer Mayukh Sen expl... Read More
News Item Community Resources Team Is Connecting Patrons to Needed Services Tuesday, March 2, 2021 Community Resources Outreach Just before Christmas, a young woman – pregnant and accompanied by her mother – sought out the Library’s... Read More
News Item Black History Live Museum Celebrates Changemakers Then and Now Tuesday, February 16, 2021 Black History Digital Media Lab During Black History Month, we celebrate the African American experience and the legacies of those who have shaped our nation. The Li... Read More
News Item Community Open House Celebrates Southeast Branch Renovations, New Media Center Monday, April 23, 2018 Digital Media Lab Library Locations The Kansas City Public Library is celebrating the makeover of its Southeast Branch, 6242 Swope Parkway, with a community open house on Saturda... Read More