The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
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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 7, 2021
Pride Month in June commemorates the Stonewall riots in New York's Greenwich Village, which ignited the gay rights movement in the Un...
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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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Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Passionate about pentameter? Really into rhyme and rhythm? Are you a stanza stan? The Library can help you get well-versed during Nation...
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Tuesday, February 9, 2021
The Kansas City Public Library partners with The Kansas City Star on the latest FYI Book Group discussion: Sarah Smars...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Nothing comes between readers and their books. Not even a pandemic. “One of the first things the Library did after closing our physical locations in r...
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Monday, December 30, 2019
With the beginning of a new year comes the renewed commitment to shake up our usual routines. We tell ourselves we’re going to learn a new skill, take...
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Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Is reading about art like dancing about architecture? If an artist sits in a vacant gallery, is it art? If an author writes a novel with a real...
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Monday, November 12, 2018
The Library is currently migrating its large collection of digital historic images to a new software platform. An unfortunate consequence of our da...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Five years ago, the Kansas City Public Library and its archival partners announced the launch of the website Civil War on the Western Border: The Miss...