The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Thursday, September 18, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
There are few storytellers like old baseball scouts because, well, nobody collects stories like the guys who spend a lifetime crisscrossing America’s...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 4, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
The year 2012 was a watershed for the Hollywood movie industry, producing the likes of Silver Linings Playbook, Les Misérables,...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 14, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
On this date 99 years and 364 days ago, the Panama Canal opened and revolutionized maritime trade.
It also threw the Panama Railroad and its parall...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Tapped to be Franklin Roosevelt’s spymaster during World War II, William Joseph “Wild Bill” Donovan became a mythic figure in the his...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Well before the famous 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City sparked the modern gay rights movement, Kansas City had its own active gay rights communi...
Signature Event
Monday, July 30, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman as education reformer Virginia Walden Ford...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 20, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with George Caleb Bingham, whose paintings of Missouri and the American frontier have...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 11, 2010
4:30pm
In Person
The English Speaking Union is hosting the Fulbright-Robertson Visiting Professor from Westminster College, Fulton, MO.
Dr. Robert Tyler wa...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
8:30pm
In Person
The Women’s Center at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, in conjunction with the Kansas City Public Libr...
Signature Event
Saturday, March 21, 2009
10:00am
In Person
A series of town hall meetings are scheduled at various branches of The Kansas City Public Library throughout March...