The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
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Friday, October 7, 2022
In celebration of KC Oktoberfest, the Library's Missouri Valley Special Collections highlights the city’s German Ame...
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Friday, August 5, 2022
What’s Your KCQ?, on which the Kansas City Public Library and The Kansas City Star collaborate to answer reader-submitted questi...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2022
The Library and two institutional partners – the Local Investment Commission (LINC) and the Black Archives of Mid-America – are being ho...
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Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Kansas City Black History is a new website spotlighting the contributions of Black Kansas Citians who blazed trails, broke barriers,...
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Friday, December 3, 2021
What fiction books were winners with Library staff in 2021? From pop culture potboilers to heavy-hitting history reads, check o...
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Friday, December 3, 2021
What books from the past year really resonated with our staff? From pop culture page-turners to mind-melting history reads, we’ve highlighted some...
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Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Have a delightfully wicked Halloween season with a monstrously good mashup of scary story recommendations, frightfully fun films, and other creepily c...
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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, August 11, 2021
Finding a beach during the dog days of summer can be a real problem for landlocked Kansas Citians. The quest often requires long-distance travel and c...
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Monday, August 9, 2021
Two hundred years ago, on August 10, 1821, Missouri officially became the 24th state. From this year’s Homegrown Stories Summer Reading Prog...