All Library locations will be closed Monday, May 27, for Memorial Day.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2022
The Library is joining with Kansas City Public Schools for an important initiative for youth: KCPS Loves to Read, a reading progra...
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Tuesday, September 13, 2022
The Kansas City Public Library’s online classes for beginning and intermediate-level writers return the week of September 26, 2022, with sessions on s...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2022
Every day, AmeriCorps members and AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers put their values into action to make a difference in communities, focusing on where th...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2022
The Kansas City Public Library is thrilled to be home to one of 154 hearts, each 5½ feet tall, in Kansas City’s public art ...
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Wednesday, March 2, 2022
The Library is entering another chapter in the resumption of many of our important community services and programs. Beginning Monday, March 7,...
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Thursday, February 24, 2022
It’s great to have you here with us … We’ve waited two yea...
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Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Nobody talks trash like libraries. That’s too bad, really. Look at the gentle back-and-forth on Twitter between Los Angeles’ and Cincinnati’s pub...
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Tuesday, February 8, 2022
The Kansas City-based Maya Angelou Book Award is open for submissions. Now in its second year, the award aims to honor Angelou’s lega...
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Thursday, January 13, 2022
For nearly 30 years, the Library of Congress used the search term “illegal aliens” to describe undocumented noncitizens. Last year, the Kansas City Pu...
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Wednesday, January 12, 2022
The Kansas City Public Library is continuing the second season of its popular online classes for beginning and intermediate-level writers interested i...