All Library locations will open late Tuesday, July 9 at 10:30 a.m. due to staff training.
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
6:30pm
Football’s evolution from sport to religion will be reconfirmed Feb. 1, 2015, when 85,000 fans in Glendale, Arizona, and a global TV audience of more...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has a unique mission among U.S. museums: to reveal biography and history through the portraits of the men...
Signature Event
Saturday, January 10, 2015
8:00pm
In Person
The KC Keepers Chapter of the Harry Potter Alliance and Plaza Branch Teen Services Cordially Invite You to the Yule Ball, a Harry Pot...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 20, 2014
6:30pm
In the early twentieth century, publicly staged productions of historical events became increasingly popular—and increasingly grand—in Ireland. These...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
6:30pm
Established in 1857, Union Cemetery is the oldest public cemetery in Kansas City. Buried there are early pioneers, veterans, and others who have left...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 9, 2014
2:00pm
Despite their country’s institutionalized prejudice, hundreds of thousands of African Americans fought in the U.S. military during World War I. They m...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 12, 2014
2:00pm
Before the birth of Kansas...
Signature Event
Friday, October 3, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Award-winning author Ann Bausum tells a true story of a terrier that wandered onto an Army training field, befriending Pvt. James Robert Conroy and ac...
Signature Event
Saturday, September 27, 2014
4:00pm
Help us wrap up Banned Books Week with a celebration of the freedom to read! We'll introduce attendees to the annual Banned Books Week awareness campa...
Signature Event
Friday, September 26, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
The pig is big in these parts. Both Missouri and Kansas rank among the nation’s top 10 pork-producing states, annually putting more than 2 million pou...