The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
What does it mean to be a “great city”? Since 2018, the Library has hosted public presentations by urban planners and round-table conversations with c...
Signature Event
Monday, August 21, 2017
10:00am
In Person
Kansas City gets a prime view of the celestial event of a lifetime – the first total solar eclipse visible in the contiguous United States since 1979...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 10, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City photographer and instructor Reed Hoffmann offers a tutorial on photographing the rare, spectacular total solar eclipse...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In Kansas City and across the country, anticipation is building for the total solar eclipse of August 21. It parallels the nation’s fervor in 1878,...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 1, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
Nobody knows more about the four-legged star of Groundhog Day than Kenneth Armitage.
An emeritus professor of behavioral eco...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
One of Kansas City’s greatest entrepreneurs, Henry W. Bloch co-founded H&R Block Inc. in 1955 and helped build it into the world’s...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
The United States remains the world’s pacesetter in science. The origins of many of its breakthroughs may surprise you, however. A sizable number o...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 14, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Few journalists have studied the issue of global warming with the thoroughness of The New York Times’ Justin Gillis, who...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
For nearly 30 years Mark Skousen — financial economist, university professor, and author — has been collecting the wisdom...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Narrowing the growing gap between the wealthy and the rest of us demands a major investment in “human capital,” according to Kauffman Foundation se...