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 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 Library Helping Make KC Count in 2020 Census Thursday, August 6, 2020 Census Outreach Election The Library is taking part in local education and outreach efforts to have everyone in our metropolitan area represented in the 2020 Census,... Read More
News Item Pride Month Celebrates LGBTQIA+ Stories Monday, June 15, 2020 Pride Month LGBTQIA+ Reading Lists Digital Services LGBT Pride Month in June commemorates the Stonewall riots in New York's Greenwich Village, which ignited the gay rights movement in t... Read More
News Item Celebrating Pride Month 2019 Saturday, June 15, 2019 Pride Month LGBTQIA+ LGBT Pride Month in June commemorates the Stonewall riots in New York's Greenwich Village, which ignited the gay rights movement in t... Read More
News Item FYI Book Club Spotlights C.J. Janovy’s No Place Like Home and LGBT Advances in Kansas (Yes, Kansas) Tuesday, June 26, 2018 Books Signature Events LGBTQIA+ Book Group Local History Kansas has seen advances in... Read More
News Item For Pride Month, Kansas City Public Library Highlights LGBTQIA+ Readings, Programs and Resources Wednesday, June 13, 2018 LGBTQIA+ Pride Month LGBT Pride Month, celebrated in June, commemorates the Stonewall riots in New York's Greenwich Village, which ignited the gay rights... Read More