The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Thursday, June 27, due to water line repairs.
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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...
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Tuesday, February 2, 2021
The Library commemorates Black History Month with a collection of speaker events, activities, and book discussions. Tune in to watch...
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Monday, February 1, 2021
Each year, the Library partners with the Local Investment Commission (LINC) and the Black Archives of Mid-America to...
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Monday, July 20, 2020
The Missouri Valley Room in the Central Library is now accepting appointments for visitors to conduct special collections research. L...
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Wednesday, June 3, 2020
As our community and our country lean into the conversations and responsive actions arising from the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, libraries...
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Friday, January 31, 2020
Each year, the Library partners with the Local Investment Commission (LINC) and the Black Archives of Mid-America to...
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Thursday, October 3, 2019
It’s fall, y’all, and the Library is kicking off the Halloween season with a monstrously good mashup of haunted local history tales, scary story recom...
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Friday, August 9, 2019
This week marks 43 years since Ralph Steadman visited a muggy Kansas City to cover the 1976 Republican National Convention for...
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Wednesday, May 29, 2019
The Library launches an out-of-this-world learning adventure for all ages in this year’s Summer Reading Program. As 2019 marks the 50...
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Thursday, March 28, 2019
Is Kansas City the home of baseball's original fans? The almanac On This Day in America credits a local newspaper, presumably T...