The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Friday, May 20, 2016
8:00pm
Doors open: 8 p.m. • Program: 8:45 p.m. The Library’s 2016 Off-the-Wall fil...
Signature Event
Saturday, May 14, 2016
11:30am
In conjunction with Planet Comicon, Kansas City’s largest pop culture and comic book convention, scheduled for May 20-22 at Bartle Hall, the Library s...
Signature Event
Saturday, May 14, 2016
11:00am
As a county sheriff and creator of Utah’s first SWAT team, William “Dub” Lawrence was once an unlikely critic of law enforcement. That SWAT team, howe...
Signature Event
Saturday, May 7, 2016
1:30pm
In conjunction with Planet Comicon, Kansas City’s largest pop culture and comic book convention, scheduled for May 20-22 at Bartle Hall, the Library s...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 5, 2016
6:30pm
The PBS documentary series Latino Americans: The 500 Year Legacy That Reshaped a Nation chronicles the rich history and expe...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 30, 2016
1:30pm
Baseball is back, launching a new major-league season April 3. That, of course, is big news in Kansas City, where the Royals begin defense of their fi...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 17, 2016
2:00pm
Hollywood has adapted, sampled, and stolen from William Shakespeare for more than a century – seeing his works as a source of prestige as soon as the...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
6:30pm
This event was originally scheduled for January but was rescheduled due to inclement weather in the Washington D.C. area...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 20, 2016
2:00pm
Hollywood has adapted, sampled, and stolen from William Shakespeare for more than a century – seeing his works as a source of prestige as soon as the...
Signature Event
Saturday, March 12, 2016
11:00am
In Person
Craig Cobb was already notorious before trying to take over Leith, North Dakota, and turn it into an Aryan enclave some three years ago. The struggle...