All Library locations will be closed Monday, May 27, for Memorial Day.
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Friday, March 29, 2024
Matt Stewart's "The Kansas City Royals: An Illustrated Timeline" was a chance to revisit forgotten stories about the team and get them in print for po...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2024
The Kansas City Public Library and the San Francisco Public Library teamed up to tackle censorship with a friendly Super Bowl wager....
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Tuesday, February 27, 2024
The Kansas City Community Gardens offers basic gardening classes at Library locations in March and April 2024....
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Friday, October 13, 2023
Have a delightfully spirited Halloween season with a monstrously good mashup of scary story recommendations, frightfully fun films, and other creepily...
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Sunday, October 1, 2023
Running through Saturday, October 7, Banned Books Week annually celebrates our freedom to read, our long-held right to seek and express ideas. While c...
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Tuesday, August 15, 2023
The Kansas City Public Library has added and modified a number of its policies in response to a new state rule regarding the age appropriateness of ma...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Two innovative art exhibitions at the Central Library are nearing their closing dates, but time to see them hasn’t entirely run out. He...
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Thursday, January 26, 2023
The Library is thrilled to announce the purchase of additional property near the Lucile H. Blu...
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Tuesday, December 27, 2022
All Kansas City Public Library locations see patrons of every interest, need, and want in search of not only materials like books and magazines but...
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Friday, December 16, 2022
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...