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 The Library Thanks Kansas City’s AmeriCorps Volunteers for a Job Well Done Monday, March 11, 2024 AmeriCorps Thank our community's volunteers. AmeriCorps Week is March 10-16, 2024.... 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 2024 Hygiene Kit Donation Drive Kicks off at the Library for Annual MLK Day of Service Thursday, November 30, 2023 AmeriCorps For the fifth year, the Kansas City Public Library’s AmeriCorps VISTA Project is collecting donations of travel-sized personal care items for a hygien... Read More
News Item Look (and Do) Good: Get a Library-Themed Charlie Hustle Tee Monday, October 16, 2023 Partnerships The Kansas City Public Library again is partnering with Charlie Hustle as part of the apparel company’s popular Communi-Tees program,... Read More
News Item Library Offers New High School Diploma Completion Program Monday, February 6, 2023 Education Kansas City Public Library cardholders living in the Library’s service area can now earn a high school diploma at no cost through... Read More
News Item Impact of Library’s Annual Hygiene Product Drive: Help to an Estimated 1,500 People Wednesday, January 18, 2023 AmeriCorps Thanks, Kansas City, for stepping up. You responded in record numbers to the annual MLK Day of Service Hygiene Kit Drive conducted by... Read More
News Item Library, Nonprofit Strawberry Week Partner on Flowvember Donation Drive Thursday, October 20, 2022 Partnerships The Library and local nonprofit Strawberry Week join for this year's Flowvember donation drive, collecting menstruation products ... 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 Partners with Barrier Babes for 'Flowvember' Wednesday, November 10, 2021 Library Services Partnerships The Library began a partnership in October with Barrier Babes, a local nonprofit that will deliver 1,... Read More