The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
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Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Lucile Bluford – namesake of the Library's L.H. Bluford Branch – was a local civil rights leader and helped make...
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Thursday, June 23, 2022
Online maintenance taking place between 4:30 p.m. Thursday, June 23, through the morning of Friday, June 24, will impact patrons' abi...
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Thursday, May 19, 2022
The Library has long worked to ensure Kansas Citians can get free access to the internet, from providing public computers and offering classes and...
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Monday, May 2, 2022
The Kansas City Public Library joins the nation in observing Older Americans Month in May. This year’s focus – with the theme Age My Way – is o...
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Monday, April 18, 2022
The Kansas City Public Library is teaming with the Mid-Continent Public Library and electric utility Evergy...
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Thursday, March 31, 2022
We’re observing National Library Week, which runs April 3-9, 2022. This year’s theme, Connect With Your Library, und...
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Monday, March 14, 2022
One more step toward normal, or new-normal, operations … Beginning...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Quindaro only lasted for six years—but one hundred sixty years later, it still fascinates people for its links to the Underground Railroad....
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Friday, March 4, 2022
Jack Johnson was one of the most famous people in the world in February 1912, having pummeled Jim Jeffries 19 months earlier in the “Fight of the Cent...
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Wednesday, March 2, 2022
The Kansas City Public Library has long offered quiet spaces for study, reflection, and reading, but now three Library study rooms are specially equip...