News Item FYI Book Club Spotlights C.J. Janovy’s No Place Like Home and LGBT Advances in Kansas (Yes, Kansas) Tuesday, June 26, 2018 Books Signature Events LGBTQIA+ Book Group Local History Kansas has seen advances in... Read More
News Item FYI Book Group explores relationships with art and people in 'Museum of Modern Love' Wednesday, March 27, 2019 Book Group Readers Services Exhibits Is reading about art like dancing about architecture? If an artist sits in a vacant gallery, is it art? If an author writes a novel with a real... Read More
News Item Trails West Branch temporarily closing for improvements Friday, May 14, 2021 Next Chapter Library Services Library News Services at the Library's Trails West location will be limited or unavailable from May 17-June 14, 2021, while upgra... Read More
News Item KC Library Connects with Community in City Parks Sunday, May 16, 2021 Library News Summer Reading Youth and Family The Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City Parks and Recreation, and Kansas City Public Schools pr... Read More
News Item Your Kansas City Public Library is OPEN. Tuesday, June 1, 2021 Library News COVID-19 Welcome back inside your Library! With our physical doors once again open to the community, our main priority continues to be t... Read More
News Item Read and Learn with Pride: Celebrating LGBTQIA+ Stories Monday, June 7, 2021 Pride Month Reading Lists Book Group Films Youth and Family Pride Month in June commemorates the Stonewall riots in New York's Greenwich Village, which ignited the gay rights movement in the Un... Read More
News Item A Refreshed Trails West Branch Reopens June 14 Friday, June 11, 2021 Library News Next Chapter Welcome back to a new and refreshed Trails West Branch... Read More
News Item Library’s Cindy Hohl Elected to National, International Positions Friday, June 18, 2021 Library News Library Staff The Kansas City Public Library’s director of branch operations Cindy Hohl, who is serving her... Read More
News Item FYI Book Club: He writes the rhythms of Kansas City and Black experience in ‘Blue Beat Syncopation’ Monday, July 26, 2021 Readers Services Book Group Summer Reading Stanley Banks' Blue Beat Syncopation: Selected Poems 1977-2002 is a frank meditation on the Black experience in Kansas City at t... Read More
News Item Library Pausing Operations Over Holidays Due to Local COVID-19 Cases Monday, December 14, 2020 COVID-19 Library News Amid public health concerns about the transmission of COVID-19 over the holidays, the Kansas City Public Library will close all locations from... Read More