All Library locations will be closing early Wednesday, November 26 at 5 p.m. and will reopen Saturday, November 29.
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Wednesday, October 22, 2025
What's Your KCQ? What do you want to know about our community? The Library and The Kansas City Star combine resources to find answers to questions abo...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Five poetry collections are shortlisted for the fifth annual Maya Angelou Book Award....
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Friday, October 17, 2025
Eight crew members and 37 passengers — many from the Kansas City metro area — died in one of the deadliest air crashes in U.S. history. A book explore...
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Monday, October 6, 2025
Author Adib Khorram talks about the best fries in town and his upcoming interview with novelist Taylor Jenkins Reid at the Heartland Book Festival....
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Saturday, October 4, 2025
This year's Banned Books Week theme, "Censorship is So 1984. Read for Your Rights,” echoes extreme censorship of an oppressive regime in '1984.'...
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Wednesday, October 1, 2025
What did the librarian say to the ghost? Here's your boo-k! And here's your spooky/kooky October Central Youth Services Zine!...
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Wednesday, October 1, 2025
The Library leans into Halloween with a monstrously good mashup of scary story recommendations, frightful films, and other creepily cool Library resou...
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Wednesday, October 1, 2025
The annual spooky zine written by Library staff, 'Phantoms of the Library,' is available at the Central Library. ...
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Monday, September 29, 2025
Does your online streaming experience feature more mattress ads than actual music? Tired of shelling out for a Spotify subscription or feeling boxed i...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2025
The Southeast Branch is home to the Digital Media Lab and hosts two summer camps each year....