On Saturday, October 11, the Central Library is open to registered Heartland Book Festival attendees only. Regular services, such as hold pickups, public computers and phones, and public meeting rooms, will not be available.
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Signature Event
Thursday, October 8, 2020
6:30pm
Online
The model for fairly selecting judges across much of our country is known as the Missouri Plan, born some 80 years ago in response to the political...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
6:30pm
Online
The Library’s long, popular partnership with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth resumes with the first in a new serie...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
6:30pm
Online
From Huckleberry Finn to Harry Potter. From The Great Gatsby to The Giving Tree. For a...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
The Kansas City Symphony continues its series of free outdoor chamber concerts at the Library, with a woodwind quintet – flute, oboe, clarinet, bas...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a pop culture icon – “the Notorious RBG” – by the end of her life. Upon her death last week, at age 87, she inevitably beca...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
6:30pm
Online
For more than a century – until 1999 – an old Louisiana sugar plantation beside the Mississippi River held a painful secret. Locals knew it as Carv...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 17, 2020
6:30pm
Online
William Faulkner once famously noted, “The past is not dead. In fact, it’s not even past.” If not explicitly, he was referring most pointedly to an...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
The Kansas City Symphony brings its series of free outdoor chamber concerts to the Library.Various ensembles perform for 45 minutes to an ho...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
The Library joins public broadcasting network PBS in a special online presentation – a conversation with acclaimed writer Kali Fajardo-Anst...
Signature Event
Saturday, August 29, 2020
10:00am
Online
How close are we to ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment? The question hangs anew over Congress. And the courts. Erica Bens...