The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
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Thursday, December 19, 2019
The Library’s North-East Branch has TEMPORARILY RELOCATED as it begins a...
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Thursday, November 14, 2019
One year ago, voters overwhelmingly approved an 8-cent increase in the Library’s property tax-based operating levy – the first adjustment to the rate...
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Friday, November 8, 2019
The Library's series of signature events brings nationally known authors, loc...
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Thursday, October 3, 2019
It’s fall, y’all, and the Library is kicking off the Halloween season with a monstrously good mashup of haunted local history tales, scary story recom...
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Friday, September 27, 2019
As information discovery has evolved, so has the Kansas City Public Library. We’ve launched a new Community Reference Team to help pa...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Our doorway to knowledge has swung open a bit wider. As of September 6, 2019, the Kansas City Public Library is expanding ope...
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Wednesday, May 29, 2019
The Library launches an out-of-this-world learning adventure for all ages in this year’s Summer Reading Program. As 2019 marks the 50...
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Friday, May 3, 2019
Children's Book Week, an annual celebration of books for youth and the joy of reading, was launched in 1919 and is currently the long...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Several Library locations will undergo upgrades and improvements to public restrooms the first week of April 2019. Construction will impact branch ope...
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Thursday, February 21, 2019
The Library has relaunched its Stories to Go program, offering monthly story time sessions to children at day care and early-learning...