News Item The Library Thanks Kansas City’s AmeriCorps Volunteers for a Job Well Done Monday, March 11, 2024 AmeriCorps Thank our community's volunteers. AmeriCorps Week is March 10-16, 2024.... Read More
News Item 2024 Hygiene Kit Donation Drive Kicks off at the Library for Annual MLK Day of Service Thursday, November 30, 2023 AmeriCorps For the fifth year, the Kansas City Public Library’s AmeriCorps VISTA Project is collecting donations of travel-sized personal care items for a hygien... Read More
News Item Pop In at the Park 2023 Monday, May 15, 2023 Outreach Stop by select Kansas City parks and visit with your Library for this year's Pop In at the Park summer series! We'll be popping up... Read More
News Item Impact of Library’s Annual Hygiene Product Drive: Help to an Estimated 1,500 People Wednesday, January 18, 2023 AmeriCorps Thanks, Kansas City, for stepping up. You responded in record numbers to the annual MLK Day of Service Hygiene Kit Drive conducted by... Read More
News Item Library’s VISTA Project and Digital Corps Honor Legacy of MLK with 2023 Hygiene Kit Donation Drive Friday, December 30, 2022 Outreach In the spirit of the service embodied by Dr. King, the Library’s AmeriCorps VISTA Project is collecting donations of travel size personal care item... Read More
News Item Community Partnerships Fuel Relationship with Housing Authority Tuesday, April 12, 2022 Outreach When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in spring of 2020, the Library had just received our shipment of materials for the Book Rich Environment... Read More
News Item Library’s VISTA Project Honors Legacy of MLK with Hygiene Kit Donation Drive Wednesday, January 19, 2022 VISTA Martin Luther King Jr. Outreach In keeping with the civil rights leader’s spirit of service, the Kansas City Public Library’s AmeriCorps VISTA Project is collecting... Read More
News Item Celebrating Storytelling With Poet Laureate Joy Harjo Wednesday, April 28, 2021 Library Staff National Poetry Month Reading Lists The Library's Director of Branch Operations Cindy Hohl joined U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo in an online conversation... Read More
News Item Feed the Meter: National Poetry Month at the Library Wednesday, April 14, 2021 National Poetry Month Reading Lists Book Group Passionate about pentameter? Really into rhyme and rhythm? Are you a stanza stan? The Library can help you get well-versed during Nation... Read More
News Item Community Resources Team Is Connecting Patrons to Needed Services Tuesday, March 2, 2021 Community Resources Outreach Just before Christmas, a young woman – pregnant and accompanied by her mother – sought out the Library’s... Read More