The Westport and Bluford branches will be closed Wednesday, June 12 for staff training.
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Monday, June 3, 2024
The Library offers nutritious meals through Kids Café year-round – at library branches during the school year and at Pop In at the Park summer sites i...
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Thursday, May 16, 2024
Stop by select Kansas City-area parks between June 4 - Aug. 15, 2024, visit with your Library, and receive a FREE BOOK!...
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Wednesday, August 16, 2023
You read. You ... rule.
Participation in the Library’s Summer Reading program, which wrapped...
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Wednesday, June 14, 2023
On Saturday, June 17, 2023, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., stop by the parking lot of the Kansas City Public Library’s...
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Friday, August 19, 2022
As part of the Library’s invaluable team of teen volunteers and interns over the summer, 17-year-old Brayden Lyons drew up and directed a Workshop...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2022
By the time our 2022 Summer Reading Program, Art Starts at Your Library, wrapped up on August 15, our patrons had shattered records a...
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Monday, August 9, 2021
Two hundred years ago, on August 10, 1821, Missouri officially became the 24th state. From this year’s Homegrown Stories Summer Reading Prog...
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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...
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Tuesday, July 6, 2021
With Library buildings open, one of the experiences patrons can once again enjoy in person is viewing exhibits in our galleries and spaces. Check out...
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Monday, June 28, 2021
Lucile Bluford – namesake of the Library's L.H. Bluford Branch – was a local civil rights leader and helped make...