Book Group

How Dolly Parton came to mean so much to Kansan Sarah Smarsh that she wrote this book

Tuesday, February 9, 2021

The Kansas City Public Library partners with The Kansas City Star on the latest FYI Book Group discussion:  Sarah Smarsh’s She Come by It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 4, 2021, via Zoom. Read...

Online Meetups Keep Book Groups Connected

Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Book Group

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Readers Services

Nothing comes between readers and their books. Not even a pandemic. “One of the first things the Library did after closing our physical locations in response to COVID-19 was start looking for ways to maintain our connection with readers,” says Kaite Stover, director of readers’ services at the Kansas City Public Librar...

Live Your Best Life in 2020 with Library Resources

Monday, December 30, 2019

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With the beginning of a new year comes the renewed commitment to shake up our usual routines. We tell ourselves we’re going to learn a new skill, take a class or two, strive to get exposed to diverse and different ideas, make healthier choices, take risks in personal and professional lives… an ambitious list of life-ch...

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 person as a character is it fiction? An FYI Book Group discussion of Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose held at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art had book and art lovers pondering these very questions. Readers also had the chance to pose their questions to the author, who dropped in via Facetime from her home in Hobart, Tasmania.

FYI Book Group explores relationships with art and people in 'Museum of Modern Love'

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Book Group

Readers Services

Exhibitions

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 person as a character is it fiction? An FYI Book Group...

Kansas has seen advances in LGBT acceptance and rights over the past decade and a half that belies perceptions of one of the country’s most famously red states. Progress has come fitfully, to be sure. But it has come nonetheless, and C.J. Janovy details the advances in both attitude and deed in the Library’s latest FYI Book Club selection, No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas.

FYI Book Club Spotlights C.J. Janovy’s No Place Like Home and LGBT Advances in Kansas (Yes, Kansas)

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Kansas has seen advances in LGBT acceptance and rights over the past decade and a half that belies perceptions of one of the country’s most famously red states. Progress has come fitfully, to be sur...