All Library locations will open late Tuesday, July 9 at 10:30 a.m. due to staff training.
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
6:30pm
Kansas City’s River Market area was known in the 1970s as River Quay, a redeveloped home to restaurants and bohemian shops—and site of a violent...
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
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
6:30pm
In the face of federal gridlock, economic stagnation, and fiscal turmoil, power in the United States is shifting away from Washington and toward our m...
Signature Event
Saturday, December 14, 2013
11:00am
This event has been cancelled due to the threat of inclement weather in the Kansas City Friday night and into Saturday morning....
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
6:30pm
Players in today’s National Football League are bigger and faster than ever — and that means devastating collisions on the gridiron. The health...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 21, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
If George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are the saints in America’s civil religion, then the 29th president, Warren G. Harding, is o...
Signature Event
Saturday, November 16, 2013
12:00am
The Kansas City Public Library hosts the 2013 Young Adult Literature Festival with Rainbow Rowell,...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 10, 2013
2:00pm
During her mother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s, Deborah Shouse explored ways to connect with her and developed new rituals to anchor h...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
6:30pm
In the same way that Walter Cronkite was “the most trusted man in America,” Martin Bell represents journalistic integrity and straigh...
Signature Event
Friday, November 1, 2013
2:00pm
Abuse of consumers by the funeral industry has only worsened in the decades since Jessica Mitford’s landmark expose The American Way of Death...