The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Thursday, June 27, due to water line repairs.
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Thursday, February 10, 2022
If archival items can be called juicy, the Folly Theater Collection...
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Wednesday, January 19, 2022
In keeping with the civil rights leader’s spirit of service, the Kansas City Public Library’s AmeriCorps VISTA Project is collecting...
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Thursday, January 13, 2022
For nearly 30 years, the Library of Congress used the search term “illegal aliens” to describe undocumented noncitizens. Last year, the Kansas City Pu...
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Friday, December 17, 2021
The Kansas City Public Library has a long history – nearly 150 years – of showing up for our patrons through good times and difficult ones. We a...
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Wednesday, November 24, 2021
As of November 30, 2021, the Library will no longer offer the eBook and digital audiobook resource Axis360. If you c...
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Wednesday, November 24, 2021
In recent weeks, groups in Texas, Virginia, South Carolina, and right here at home in Cass County, Kansas City’s Northland, and Wichita have worked to...
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Friday, November 12, 2021
The Kansas City Public Library has taken another step toward normal operations, reopening many of the study and meeting rooms across...
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Wednesday, October 13, 2021
The Missouri Valley Room at the Central Library is home to more than 200 special collections of archival materials documenting the history and develop...
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Wednesday, September 29, 2021
The Kansas City Public Library has received $853,212 in a first wave of federal Emergency Connectivity funding designed to increase broadband internet...
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Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Two decades ago – on September 11, 2001 – nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in the deadliest terrorist attacks in history. This year, thousand...