All Library locations will be close early Wednesday, November 27, at 5 p.m. & will be closed Thursday, November 28, for Thanksgiving.
Friday, June 30, 2023
Kansas City has its own juicy burger history – the focus of this installment of What’s Your KCQ?, an ongoing series produced by...
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
Two months ago, in April 2023, the Library’s Julie Robinson looked on proudly as 198 people became U.S. citizens during the latest in...
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Lucile Bluford – namesake of the Library's L.H. Bluford Branch – was a local civil rights leader and helped make...
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
On Saturday, June 17, 2023, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., stop by the parking lot of the Kansas City Public Library’s...
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
In a recent op-ed column in The Kansas City Star, Pete Browne, president of the Kansas City Library board of trustees, share...
Monday, June 5, 2023
An educator, businessperson, and champion of reading and literacy, Marilou Joyner served on the Library’s board of trustees from 2014 to 2019, whe...
Friday, June 2, 2023
"All Together Now" is the Summer Reading theme, so we put TOGETHER a new zine and it's ALL ready NOW....
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Amy Cousins and Ruben Castillo have been friends for five years. They are both artists and educators – Cousins in Ph...
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
The Library invites all Kansas Citians to read, learn, imagine, and explore together in this year’s...
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
At 19,091 unique titles, the Kansas City Public Library’s collection of m...