The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Thursday, June 27, due to water line repairs.
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Thursday, September 23, 2021
The Library and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation present a series of online community conversations centered around the book...
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Monday, July 26, 2021
Stanley Banks' Blue Beat Syncopation: Selected Poems 1977-2002 is a frank meditation on the Black experience in Kansas City at t...
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Thursday, July 22, 2021
The Library and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation present a series of online community conversations centered around the book Pushout:...
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Thursday, June 17, 2021
Established as a general holiday in 2021, Juneteenth marks the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans on June 19, 1865, following...
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Monday, June 14, 2021
The Library’s annual summer skyline film series returns with a fresh lineup of FREE outdoor movies! This year we’re shifting our location to the to...
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Dig into this year's Summer Reading Program with a bounty of HOMEGROWN STORIES that celebrate regional roots and cul...
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Friday, May 28, 2021
Rebecca Solnit is, in her words, “a person who lives by books, in books, for books, who makes books, who searches for the words, stories, meanings,...
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Friday, May 7, 2021
May is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and the Library is celebrating the history, culture, and achievements of AAPI...
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Monday, April 19, 2021
The latest pick of the Library's FYI Book Group, in partnership with the Kansas City Star, is Hanif Abdurraqib...
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Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Tune in to online Library events that explore the role of women in our culture from the history of Westward Expansion through cont...