The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Thursday, June 27, due to water line repairs.
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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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Monday, July 13, 2020
The Kansas City Public Library’s director of branch operations has received national recognition.
Cindy Hohl, who has overseen the Librar...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2020
There’s nothing like a stay-at-home mandate to bring out one’s creativity....
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Sunday, April 19, 2020
Librarian Katie Dennis grew up in the country in a family of birdwatchers, but never shared the interest until she became a city dweller. Now, she's f...
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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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Thursday, January 9, 2020
You have a worthy cause, a mission, and you’ve formed a nonprofit to pursue it. Now, you need funding.
Start that search at the Library.&...
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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, September 27, 2019
As information discovery has evolved, so has the Kansas City Public Library. We’ve launched a new Community Reference Team to help pa...
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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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Monday, April 15, 2019
One of the Kansas City Public Library’s branch managers has received national recognition. Amanda Barnhart, manager of the North-East Branch, has been...