The Westport and Bluford branches will be closed Wednesday, June 12 for staff training.
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Monday, April 8, 2024
Author Gregg Colburn discusses his book "Homelessness is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns" at 6 p.m., Wednesday, April...
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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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Monday, March 18, 2024
As the second of the four-part speaker series celebrating the Kansas City Public Library’s 150th anniversary – and timed to this year’s International...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2024
John Beasley, winner of two Grammys, will teach a master class at the Plaza Branch on March 8, 2024....
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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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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, July 18, 2023
Since September 2019, thousands of people have attended Science Matters, a monthly brown bag lunch series co-hosted by the Kansas...
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Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Amy Cousins and Ruben Castillo have been friends for five years. They are both artists and educators – Cousins in Ph...
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Monday, May 15, 2023
Stop by select Kansas City parks and visit with your Library for this year's Pop In at the Park summer series! We'll be popping up...