Kansas City Public Library

After careful consideration and monitoring of the COVID-19 outbreak, the Kansas City Public Library is TEMPORARILY CLOSING all 10 locations beginning 5 p.m. Sunday, March 15, until further notice. This includes all classes, activities, and outreach services. Learn more

The Kansas City Public Library’s Street Sheet is a semimonthly resource sheet for individuals experiencing homelessness, primarily the unsheltered/street living, during the difficult time of this health crisis. https://kclibrary.org//defa/files/2020-10-7StreetSheet.pdf

Mayor Quinton Lucas is a great friend to the Library and we are so delighted that he's participated in the Friends of the Kansas City Public Library and Young F...riends of the Kansas City Public Library's bedtime story series! Watch it and the new nightly storytimes all month long on our KC Library Youth YouTube channel. See more

During World War II, a librarian by the name of John Greenlee began recording the names and addresses of former KCPL staffers in military service in what he called the Honor Book. Just in time for Veterans Day, the Honor Book has been digitized and placed online. Learn more about this fascinating scrapbook of library history by clicking below.

Want to put forth as little effort as possible on Thanksgiving this year? Or maybe you’d like some easy recipes that don’t require a lot of thought or fancy ingredients? For a taste of Thanksgiving without all the oppressive preparation, there’s Cranberry Slow-Cooker Turkey Breast, from: Six Ingredients: 100+ Fast and Easy Family Meals (2019). This easy recipe, which involves orange juice and onion soup mix, is also available on the book's blog: https://bit.ly/38u976R. But if... you’d like a bunch of ad-free recipes without the chatty prefaces, place a hold on the actual book here: https://bit.ly/36550LH. (And if you want to go crazy with 11 other ingredients, you could serve this with the cookbook’s Cheesy Pull Apart Biscuits and Green Beans With Candied Pecans.) Need more Thanksgiving recipe inspiration? Want to plan a feast? Check out these Thanksgiving items: https://bit.ly/3pfod6a. See more

The internet archive is a fascinating website where you can explore past versions of the internet superhighway. Need a place to start? How about playing The Oregon Trail online?

Need to up your food game? We're taking Science Matters in to the kitchen. Join us for a lecture on the Science of Sustenance.

Did you hear?! The Kansas City Public Library - Central Library was one of the winners for The Pitch's Best of Kansas City 2020 as Best Library Branch - MO! Read more about it here: https://bit.ly/2Ua5tHe

It's Music Monday, brought to you by our resident music expert and AV Supervisor Eric! In this second of two installments, we’re looking at a second group of music and artists who play Latin jazz, a type of jazz with Latin American rhythms. Available at Central Library now, this music is very danceable, so let’s samba some more!

This week's 7-day Dial-a-Story forecast predicts a 100% chance of loveable stories. Give us a call at (816)701-3456, or follow the link to hear this week's books! https://kclibrary.org/kids/dial-story

November's Early Literacy Make. Do. Tell. kit includes one can of Play-Doh, one cookie cutter, and one sensory ball. Pick up yours at your fav Library location and learn about how playing with dough/clay benefits young children: https://bit.ly/2Ieva70

Unless you and your potential better half met at a Julia Roberts/Sally Field fan club, I’m not sure who would find it wise to select the Date Night Movie Collection for an actual dateunless you wanted to scare your date away. Nevertheless, some marketing genius has thus packaged three '80s tearjerker melodramas and one '90s rom-com for your watching pleasure. Steel Magnolias (1989) and My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997) are on one DVD, and Murphy’s Romance (1985) and Places in the Heart (1984) are on the other. So, date night or not, for a good laugh, or cry, place a hold here: https://bit.ly/2FFKJ5Q. And if you have watched these movies on a date, we’d love to hear about it in the comments!

Can we help you? Our Community Resources Team offers one-on-one appointments, by phone or in-person appointment, to help you find the resources you need to improve your quality of life. We can help connect you to resources/ help you complete the applications for rent/ mortgage, utilities, medical resources, housing, employment and Learn how to get important Documents like an I.D. Schedule a one hour appointment from 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., Monday through Thursday. Learn more: https://bit.ly/2TTA2AJ

Q: What did the sweet potato say to the turkey? A: Here I yam! Enjoy this and more fun with the November issue of our Central Youth Services Zine, which you can download, print and assemble: https://bit.ly/2Jzpepx