The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
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Sunday, November 13, 2022
Missouri’s secretary of state wants to enact a new policy that libraries believe endangers your freedom to read and threatens to reduce community acce...
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Thursday, October 20, 2022
The office of Missouri’s secretary of state wants public libraries to act in the very best interests of our children. We’ve long done that at the K...
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Sunday, September 18, 2022
Banned Books Week, September 18-24, 2022, spotlights current and historical attempts to censor titles and collections in libraries an...
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Friday, December 17, 2021
The Kansas City Public Library has a long history – nearly 150 years – of showing up for our patrons through good times and difficult ones. We a...
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Wednesday, December 16, 2020
The past year was a difficult one for families across the Kansas City metropolitan area. For those hardest hit—families impacted by the digital divide...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Though our physical locations have recently opened, we want you to know that the Library remains an online source of information about what’s happe...
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Sunday, March 15, 2020
With Kansas City’s stay-at-home order due to expire May 15, 2020, the Library is working out the details of a careful, phased-in reopeni...
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Thursday, March 12, 2020
The Kansas City Public Library is paying close attention to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in our country and to recommendations from local, stat...
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Thursday, December 19, 2019
The Library’s North-East Branch has TEMPORARILY RELOCATED as it begins a...
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Thursday, July 11, 2019
From July 8 through mid-August, 2019, the property on which the Plaza Branch is located will be undergoing con...