All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Sunday, September 13, 2015
2:00pm
Judy Schachner doodled on just about everything while growing up in New England, including her father’s bald head. Now, as The New Yo...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
An estimated 225,000 adults in Kansas City function at the lowest literacy level, denied some of the simplest and most important moments in life be...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 3, 2015
6:30pm
You’re scheduled to give a business presentation, pitch investors, or deliver a wedding toast. And you’re petrified. You’re simply not cut out for pub...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
6:30pm
Beyond fathering a nation, founding a great university, and leaving a legacy as an architect and inventor, Thomas Jefferson was a forefather of modern...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 27, 2015
6:30pm
Award-winning chefs Colby and Megan Garrelts discuss some of the 50 handcrafted recipes included in their new book,...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 20, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City’s ad-industry history runs deep, featuring a host of agencies representing major brands including Guy’s Potato Chips and the McDonald’s Ha...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Bestselling author and former Kansas City Star columnist Joe Posnanski discusses his new book about the most remarkable r...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 6, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Historian Adrian Burgos Jr. and Raymond Doswell of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum discuss the early struggles and now-growing impact of Latinos on...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Presidential races are the stuff of myth, sometimes literally. Like the 1952 contest between Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson, both purportedly r...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 2, 2015
2:00pm
Mike Yeates and Andrew Mackey explain how they took an all-but-forgotten home and made it the office site of their business, The Real Estate Store. Th...