The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
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Monday, March 18, 2024
As the second of the four-part speaker series celebrating the Kansas City Public Library’s 150th anniversary – and timed to this year’s International...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2024
The Kansas City Public Library and the San Francisco Public Library teamed up to tackle censorship with a friendly Super Bowl wager....
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Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Super Bowl News: The Kansas City Public Library is partnering with the San Francisco Public Library to draw attention "Tackle Censorship."...
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Wednesday, January 24, 2024
What's Your KCQ? What do you want to know about our community? The Library and The Kansas City Star combine resources to find answers to questions abo...
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Tuesday, January 2, 2024
What better way to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the library than by celebrating its first head librarian, Carrie Westlake Whitney...
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Friday, November 17, 2023
The Library is taking its 150th birthday celebration on the road – or more precisely, the rails. One of Kansas City's downtown streetcar...
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Tuesday, November 14, 2023
The north side of the Central Library’s third floor – an area that once housed a reference desk and row after row of books – has just reopened as the...
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Friday, June 30, 2023
Kansas City has its own juicy burger history – the focus of this installment of What’s Your KCQ?, an ongoing series produced by...
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Friday, May 12, 2023
With Mother’s Day weekend approaching, it is fitting that What’s Your KCQ? respond to a query about Kansas City’s...
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Friday, December 16, 2022
With the holidays in full swing, a What’s Your KCQ? reader recently wondered: “What happened to the Christmas decorations that u...