Central Library will not have the following services available on Saturday, October 12, due to the Heartland Book Fest: tech services, public computers and printing, and microfilm.
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Steve Paul is joined by three of the area writers who contributed to Kansas City Noir, a collection of shor...
Signature Event
Monday, October 1, 2012
7:00pm
In Person
Staged by the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre, this work, along with Bingo on the Boulevard on October 7th, is based on sto...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 27, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Taking the White House requires a team, and America had never seen anything like the husband-and-wife team of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Historian...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Americans view the Korean conflict as an American war in which the United States lost nearly 38,000 men. But above all else it was a war between Korea...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Isn’t it about time for the South to once again secede from the Union? Comic travel writer Chuck Thompson thinks so, arguing that the...
Signature Event
Monday, September 24, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Reporter/pundit Eleanor Clift joins Kansas City Public Library Director Crosby Kemper III for a public conversation...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 23, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
No president since the founders has done more to shape American government than Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Alan Brinkley arg...
Signature Event
Friday, September 21, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
As a member of the Black Panther Party, Jamal Joseph advocated burning Columbia University to the ground. Forty years later he&rsq...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 20, 2012
6:30pm
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Thomas Jefferson, as portrayed by Patri...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 20, 2012
6:00pm
In Person
Want to be prepared for the presidential election? Learn about voter deadlines, provisional ballots, new voter ID cards, ID’s required at the polls...