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
Online
If, indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic is waning in the United States, the questions and concerns around it have not. Where do dangerous new viruses lik...
Signature Event
Online
There is a way to address climate change -- we have the needed technology and financing -- but is there enough collective will? Can a society...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Americans already have seen some benefits, in the form of smaller payroll withholdings, from the new tax law signed last December. But for the most pa...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Former Defense Department cyber security chief Katherine Charlet, now with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, assesses the rising...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 31, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Sonny Ramaswamy, director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, examines the exquisite paradox of the Monarch butterfly...
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
Saturday, August 19, 2017
2:00pm
In Person
Humanity has explored far beyond the reaches of Earth, nearly to the edge of interstellar space (and we’re getting closer every day). We have visit...
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,...