All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
6:00pm
The Plaza Branch invites you to join us for an evening of holiday fun! Expert librarians from around the metro area come together to suggest great boo...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 16, 2017
6:30pm
Former ambassador David F. Lambertson, who served in Saigon in the mid-1960s as a member of the American embassy’s political secti...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
6:30pm
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Signature Event
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Columbia University professor and writer Helen Benedict and the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Whitney Terrell...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 12, 2017
2:00pm
Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from Mustach...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
6:30pm
Returning to Kansas City on the heels of the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s 25th anniversary season, national Shakespeare authority...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 5, 2017
2:00pm
The Library continues its movie series for individuals with dementia, their friends, and families with the lighthearted documentary The Sear...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 2, 2017
6:30pm
As the Vietnam War escalated in the 1960s, Hollywood was struggling financially and the longtime studio system was collapsing. Into the vacuum step...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
6:30pm
Donald Trump became the 45th president of the United States in large part by campaigning against the establishment. Now, author and conservative...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 26, 2017
6:30pm
In a discussion of his new book, Dearest Mother: Letters from a Lonesome Sammy, 1915-1919, Kansas City marketing icon, local...