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
Monday, April 22, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
The Library continues its examination of immigration in America with a screening of the film My American Girls: A Dominican Story and disc...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 18, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Vartan Gregorian’s considerable legacy as a scholar and humanitarian stretches from his presidencies of the New York Public Librar...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Of all the Americans he knew, Dwight Eisenhower wrote in 1954, “George Marshall possessed more of the qualities of greatness than has any other.”...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
With an award-winning novel, best-selling collection of short stories, and a nonfiction best-seller (On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howar...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 13, 2019
2:00pm
In Person
U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II and his wife Dianne Cleaver honor local high school artists at the annual Missouri 5...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 11, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
The roots of today’s political fractiousness lie, in part, in a four-day gathering in Houston more than 40 years ago. The National Women’s Conference...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Displaced from their home in Belarus during World War II, a then-teenage Gitla Doppelt and her family joined bands of fo...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
In its day, there may have been no more stimulating place than London’s Turk’s Head Tavern on a Friday night. There in the mid- to late 18th century,...
Signature Event
Monday, April 8, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Displaced from their home in Belarus during World War II, a then-teenage Gitla Doppelt and her family joined bands of forest-dwell...
Signature Event
Monday, April 8, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
The Library continues its examination of immigration in America with a screening and discussion of “The Golden Door,” the opening episode of the do...