The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Thursday, June 27, due to water line repairs.
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Friday, August 9, 2019
This week marks 43 years since Ralph Steadman visited a muggy Kansas City to cover the 1976 Republican National Convention for...
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Thursday, July 11, 2019
From July 8 through mid-August, 2019, the property on which the Plaza Branch is located will be undergoing con...
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Thursday, May 9, 2019
Library computers at all locations will be undergoing upgrades the week of May 20-25. This process will roll out new and improv...
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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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Thursday, March 28, 2019
Is Kansas City the home of baseball's original fans? The almanac On This Day in America credits a local newspaper, presumably T...
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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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Wednesday, March 20, 2019
As Kansas City International Airport breaks ground on a new terminal on March 25, 2019, the Library's Missouri Valley Special Collection...
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Friday, March 8, 2019
March is Women's History Month, and there are many ways to commemorate the lives and achievements of women throughout history and sha...
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Street signs along Kansas City's Paseo Boulevard began coming down in late February, replaced with new ones proclaiming the street’s...
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Monday, November 12, 2018
The Library is currently migrating its large collection of digital historic images to a new software platform. An unfortunate consequence of our da...