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 Celebrate Welcoming Week, Sept. 10-19, 2021 Monday, September 13, 2021 Refugee and Immigrant Services During Welcoming Week, September 10-19, organizations and communities across the U.S. bring together people of all backgrounds to bui... 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 Library’s VISTA Project honors legacy of MLK with Hygiene Kit Donation Drive Monday, January 7, 2019 Outreach Martin Luther King Jr. Refugee and Immigrant Services In keeping with the civil rights leader’s spirit of service, the Kansas City Public Library’s AmeriCorps VISTA Project is collecting... Read More
News Item Dedication and Perseverance! English for Citizenship Classes Help Manufacturing Job Worker Pass Naturalization Interview Monday, July 23, 2018 Citizenship Refugee and Immigrant Services Marcos Balam toiled through two English for Citizenship courses – each taking 12 weeks – and multiple one-to-one meetings with... Read More