The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Thursday, June 27, due to water line repairs.
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Saturday, February 22, 2020
One hundred years ago the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, giving women in the U.S. the hard-won right to vote. In co...
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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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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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Tuesday, August 27, 2019
This installment of “What’s Your KCQ” is a story of gambling, gangsters, and geography. Reader William Renegar wanted to know, “Was t...
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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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Friday, May 10, 2019
The second class of Career Online High School graduates enthusiastically collected their diplomas during a recent celebration. The pr...
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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...