All Library locations will be closed Monday, May 27, for Memorial Day.
News Item
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Winter FYI Book Club: "I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times" by Taylor Byas, 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award winner....
News Item
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
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...
News Item
Monday, July 24, 2023
The Street Sheet is often used by unhoused Kansas Citians looking for clothing, food, shelter, and financial assistance....
News Item
Monday, July 3, 2023
In war, amputees might be celebrated as heroes. But those with damaged faces endure a far different reception.
They “often caused feelings...
News Item
Thursday, August 4, 2022
This year's Summer Reading Program has been a celebration of making, dreaming, and doing – over 10,000 readers have read more than 11...
News Item
Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Through photographs, video storytelling, and spatial elements, Evicted is an immersive exhibition illuminates the harrowing experience of evi...
News Item
Friday, December 3, 2021
What fiction books were winners with Library staff in 2021? From pop culture potboilers to heavy-hitting history reads, check o...
News Item
Friday, December 3, 2021
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...
News Item
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
Want a read on the progress women are making in society, on where they once stood or stand now in their centuries-long struggle for equal access and o...
News Item
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...