The Westport and Bluford branches will be closed Wednesday, June 12 for staff training.
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Friday, February 24, 2023
The Library launches a new season of its popular classes for beginn...
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Monday, January 30, 2023
With Kansas City International Airport's new single terminal now scheduled to open on February 28, 2023, the Library's Missouri Valley Special C...
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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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Thursday, August 25, 2022
The Veterans Writing Workshop is designed to help veterans, active military, and their family members develop writing and narrative skills t...
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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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Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Quindaro only lasted for six years—but one hundred sixty years later, it still fascinates people for its links to the Underground Railroad....
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Friday, March 4, 2022
Jack Johnson was one of the most famous people in the world in February 1912, having pummeled Jim Jeffries 19 months earlier in the “Fight of the Cent...
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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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Wednesday, January 12, 2022
The Kansas City Public Library is continuing the second season of its popular online classes for beginning and intermediate-level writers interested i...