Kansas City Public Library - Westport Branch

06/03/2026

Join us today as we celebrate our Summer Reading Kick-off Celebration🥳. Activities start at 12:00 p.m. we will have face painting, food, karaoke, an animal ballon artist, and so much more. Find out more at kclibrary.org/summerreading

05/30/2026

The children's program "Read to a Dog (And Maybe a Cat!" returns to Westport Branch Library, 118 Westport Road, from 1:30 to 3:00 pm on Saturday afternoons during EVEN months, so...

---June 13th
---August 8th
---October 17th
---December 12th

Feel free to call Christy at 816-701-3488 on Mondays and Thursdays to get signed up....we are currently taking reservations for the June 13th date. Book now!

Thank you to the pets and volunteers at Mo-Kan Pet Partners for making the happiest-day-of-the-month for our patron children, parents, and staff!

05/30/2026

Come to Retro Mystery Movie Days at the Westport Branch! This month we are featuring "Murder on the Orient Express" (the 2017 remake with Kenneth Branagh and Penelope Cruz -- if you haven't seen the 1974 original with Albert Finney and Lauren Bacall, it is available in our library system) AND "Body Heat" (the 1981 neo-noir film starring Kathleen Turner and William Hurt, basically a remake of "Double Indemnity" with Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray; also available at KCPL). We showed the original movies in May and are screening the reimagined films in June.

June 4: "Murder on the Orient Express" (PG-13) at 3:15
June 18: "Body Heat" (R) at 3:15

Retro Mystery Movies are part of the "Christie with Christy: Movies from the Golden Age of Mystery and Classic Film Noir/Neo-Noir" series. We show movies on the first Thursday of every month based on mystery novels from the 1930s-1950s (known as the "Golden Age of Mystery") and screen movies on the third Thursday of every month from the tradition of classic film noir and more contemporary neo-noir where even the shadows on the screen become a character.

05/21/2026

Join us for this month's Whimsical Westport Fun Day! We'll be celebrating spring and making butterfly puppets 🦋. Story time and craft will be Friday, May 29th at 3:00 pm in the Children's Area.

We’ll be reading: The Spring Book by Todd Parr, Spring Stinks by Ryan T. Higgins, and When Spring Comes by Kevin Henkes🌼

05/04/2026

It’s been such a joy hosting the architecture students from the University of Kansas! 🎓 They’ve put in incredible work designing building plans and innovative concepts for a new Westport branch. Today was their final presentation, and now we’re sharing their vision with you! Stop by our meeting room to take a look at their hard work.

04/24/2026

🎬 Come watch the movie "Selena" with us tomorrow at 2pm and learn about the career and life of this talented "Queen of Tejano" music ! 🎶

Our music artist of the month for April is "Queen of Tejano music"-turned 90s pop music sensation Selena Quintanilla-Perez. 🎬 Come and learn about Selena's life and career by watching the movie "Selena" starring Jennifer Lopez with us on Saturday, April 25 ! 🎬 Free snack also provided 🍿

Just as Selena was bringing her popular Tejano songs into the mainstream pop medium in 1995, she was tragically murdered. She was the first female Tejano artist to win a Grammy award.

04/17/2026

NOTICE: EARLY CLOSING.

All library locations will be closed early today, Friday, April 17th at 2:30 PM due to inclement weather. We apologize for the inconvenience. For the latest updates, please visit our website at kclibrary.org.

04/13/2026

Our music artist of the month for April is "Queen of Tejano music"-turned 90s pop music sensation Selena Quintanilla-Perez. 🎬 Come and learn about Selena's life and career by watching the movie "Selena" starring Jennifer Lopez with us on Saturday, April 25 ! 🎬 Free snack also provided 🍿

Just as Selena was bringing her popular Tejano songs into the mainstream pop medium in 1995, she was tragically murdered. She was the first female Tejano artist to win a Grammy award.

04/09/2026

🎤🎶 Westport Karaoke this month will be on Friday, April 17 🎶🎤.
ALL ages and ALL singing levels and ALL genres of music welcome !

04/05/2026

🎬 Our Westport Movie Days for April will be Tuesday, April 14 & Friday, April 24 🎬
Come watch free movies and have a free snack on us ! 🍿