All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Sunday, January 21, 2018
1:30pm
Searching the Psyche Through Cinema, the annual and incisive screening-and-discussion series, returns with psychological studies of films directed by...
Signature Event
Saturday, January 20, 2018
10:30am
Today’s gardeners can choose from an ever-widening array of plants in beautiful new colors and forms. Bill Malouche, owner and manager of the Kansa...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 14, 2018
2:00pm
Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallo...
Signature Event
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
James Shipley, one of fewer than 200 surviving members of the famed, all-black World War II unit known as the Tuskegee Airmen, joins author Jeremy...
Signature Event
Monday, December 11, 2017
6:30pm
Kansas City Mayor Sly James joins daughter Aja James and her co-author, Audrey Masoner, in a discussion of their new children’s p...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 10, 2017
2:00pm
Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from Eric Litwin’s Pete the C...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 7, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book President McKinley: Architect of the American Century, acclaimed historian Robert Merry gives 2...
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
6:30pm
In a discussion of their book 100 Years' Journey: The Greenway Fields Neighborhood, co-authors Elizabeth Noble and LaDene Mo...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
6:30pm
Visionaries including Dan Cohen, founder of the nonprofit Music & Memory, buck a broken healthcare system to demonstrate music’s ability to combat...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
6:00pm
The Plaza Branch invites you to join us for an evening of holiday fun! Expert librarians from around the metro area come together to suggest great boo...