Wednesday, February 5, 2025
The Library hosts a city-wide Big Read from March 29 - May 23, 2025....
Saturday, February 1, 2025
Have a woof-ly Valentine's Day! The February Central Youth Services zine of 2025 is now available online or at the Library....
Friday, January 31, 2025
The Library continues a 15-year partnership with the Black Archives of Mid-America and LINC in celebration of Black History Month....
Monday, January 27, 2025
On January 31, 1901, the Coates Opera House, Kansas City’s original first-class theater, met a fate common among nineteenth-century theaters when it b...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
In December, The Kansas City Star launched Reel Rare, a five-part series exploring early 20th-century Kansas City home movies and the stories they rev...
Tuesday, January 21, 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...
Monday, January 20, 2025
On January 22, 1882, future architect William Drewin Wight was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 1911, he joined his older brother, Thomas, in Kansas C...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Kansas City Restaurant Week is underway and continues through January 19. A new donation to the Library's Missouri Valley Special Collections has boos...
Monday, January 13, 2025
On January 15, 1967, the Kansas City Chiefs lost to the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl I....
Monday, January 6, 2025
The Waldo Branch re-opened on January 3 after upgrades to carpet, paint, furniture, and computers....