The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Welcome back inside your Library! With our physical doors once again open to the community, our main priority continues to be t...
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Thursday, May 27, 2021
Troost Avenue has become known as Kansas City’s dividing line — and its roots run deep in the city’s history of racial segregation and slavery....
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Wednesday, May 19, 2021
When is the last time you remember hearing the Giralda Tower bells? Do you know someone who played them or performed maintenance on them? Have you eve...
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Sunday, May 16, 2021
The Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City Parks and Recreation, and Kansas City Public Schools pr...
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Friday, May 14, 2021
Services at the Library's Trails West location will be limited or unavailable from May 17-June 14, 2021, while upgra...
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Thursday, May 13, 2021
When Barbara Haar worked as a therapist and social worker at the Florence Home for Colored Girls in the late ’60s and early ‘70s, she would tell the r...
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Wednesday, May 12, 2021
As we prepare for a June 1 reopen of our physical locations, the Kansas City Public Library is making some changes to our popular...
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Tuesday, May 11, 2021
The Library is preparing to reopen our physical doors and welcome the Kansas City community back inside. Between now and June 1, we a...
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Friday, May 7, 2021
In 1946, Kansas City found itself at a crossroads. The rise of the suburbs and decentralization posed a threat to downtown, creating a postwar existen...
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Thursday, April 29, 2021
At one time, this Kansas City entertainment complex had a 14,000-square-foot dance floor, a pool, ice skating and roller skating rinks. But then came...