The Trails West branch closed early at 2 p.m. Monday, June 24 and will remained closed Tuesday, June 25, due to air conditioning issues.
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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, 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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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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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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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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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...
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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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Wednesday, March 20, 2019
As Kansas City International Airport breaks ground on a new terminal on March 25, 2019, the Library's Missouri Valley Special Collection...
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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...