News Item The Library Thanks Kansas City’s AmeriCorps Volunteers for a Job Well Done Monday, March 11, 2024 AmeriCorps Thank our community's volunteers. AmeriCorps Week is March 10-16, 2024.... Read More
News Item 2024 Hygiene Kit Donation Drive Kicks off at the Library for Annual MLK Day of Service Thursday, November 30, 2023 AmeriCorps For the fifth year, the Kansas City Public Library’s AmeriCorps VISTA Project is collecting donations of travel-sized personal care items for a hygien... Read More
News Item Impact of Library’s Annual Hygiene Product Drive: Help to an Estimated 1,500 People Wednesday, January 18, 2023 AmeriCorps Thanks, Kansas City, for stepping up. You responded in record numbers to the annual MLK Day of Service Hygiene Kit Drive conducted by... Read More
News Item Writers for Readers 2021 Tuesday, October 12, 2021 Signature Events Awards This year's... Read More
News Item Kansas City Public Library Earns Top-Tier 5-Star Rating … Once Again Wednesday, February 12, 2020 Awards Library News For the fourth consecutive year, the Kansas City Public Library has earned a 5-star designation from Library Journal. Only 85 public... Read More
News Item KCQ: Last Chance and State Line Tuesday, August 27, 2019 What's Your KCQ? Local History Missouri Valley Pendergast Years This installment of “What’s Your KCQ” is a story of gambling, gangsters, and geography. Reader William Renegar wanted to know, “Was t... Read More
News Item Library Earns Top-Tier 5-Star Rating Monday, November 5, 2018 Awards For the third consecutive year, the Kansas City Public Library earns a 5-star designation from Library Journal... Read More
News Item Dedication and Perseverance! English for Citizenship Classes Help Manufacturing Job Worker Pass Naturalization Interview Monday, July 23, 2018 Citizenship Refugee and Immigrant Services Marcos Balam toiled through two English for Citizenship courses – each taking 12 weeks – and multiple one-to-one meetings with... Read More
News Item With Library Classes, Practice Sessions, One of America’s Newest Citizens Sailed Through Naturalization Test Tuesday, May 15, 2018 Refugee and Immigrant Services Citizenship Fausto Montero prepared for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' naturalization test with the help of the Kansas City Public Library's En... Read More
News Item Hard Work and Long Hours Pay Off: Working Mother Completes Library’s English for Citizenship Program, Passes Naturalization Interview Wednesday, March 7, 2018 Citizenship Refugee and Immigrant Services Maria Hodge was part of the Kansas City Public Library's pilot program, English for Citizenship. For 12 weeks, she studied with her classmates in p... Read More