Press Releases
- Mon, March 2, 2015 Terry Beckenbaugh Examines Lincoln's Final Months and a Fitful Run-Up to the End of the Civil War
- Tue, February 24, 2015 Washington (and ESPN) Await: Spellers Compete For Jackson-Clay Title, Berth in National Bee
- Thu, February 26, 2015 Library Selected As Host Site in Missouri For 2016 Exhibit Featuring Rare, Valuable Shakespeare's First Folio
- Tue, February 24, 2015 Script-in-Hand Series Features Two Classic Love Stories - Same Time, Next Year and Barefoot in the Park - in March
- Mon, February 23, 2015 Library's Friday Night Family Fun Offerings Begin with Magic, Finish with a Visit to The Sandlot
- Mon, February 23, 2015 Journalist Traci Angel Highlights 100 Things to Do in Kansas City Before You Die
- Wed, February 18, 2015 Canadian Consul General Roy Norton Looks Back at an Especially Good Neighbor, Harry S. Truman
- Wed, February 18, 2015 Stanford Lecturer, Former White House Adviser Amy Wilkinson Delivers Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs
- Thu, February 12, 2015 Writers at Work Series Spotlights Novelist Elizabeth Gaffney And A Public Space Fellowship Winner April Wolfe
- Wed, February 11, 2015 Carmaletta Williams Portrays a Giant of American Literature, Zora Neale Hurston, in Latest Installment of Meet the Past
- Tue, February 10, 2015 Library's Adult Winter Reading Program Features An Afternoon of "Woemance" - Stories and Songs of Love Gone Wrong
- Tue, February 10, 2015 Performance Artist Tim Youd Takes Up Temporary Residence In Library to Retype a Kansas City-Based Classic, Mr. Bridge
- Fri, February 6, 2015 City Manager Troy Schulte Headlines Second Citizens Project Forum Focusing on Kansas City's 2015 Elections
- Fri, February 6, 2015 Preeminent Music Critic Kyle Gann Spotlights One of America's Greatest Compositions, Ives' Concord Sonata
- Tue, February 3, 2015 New Script-in-Hand Series, Focusing on Love Stories, Launches with the Poignant Love Letters
- Thu, January 29, 2015 New Library Exhibit Chronicles Life and Career of Journalism Pioneer and Civil Rights Difference-Maker Lucile Bluford
- Wed, January 28, 2015 St. Louis University's Lorri Glover Focuses McKinzie Lecture On the American Revolution's Dual Impact - on Family Life as Well as Politics
- Mon, January 26, 2015 Sesquicentennial on Mount Oread: Former Star Editor Monroe Dodd Discusses the 150-Year Story of the University of Kansas
- Mon, January 26, 2015 Former KC Mayor Richard Berkley Discusses Life on Both Sides of the Camera Lens
- Mon, January 26, 2015 Cradle of Entrepreneurs Series Spotlights KC's World-Renowned Wizard of Architectural Metal, Bill Zahner