All Library locations will open late Tuesday, July 9 at 10:30 a.m. due to staff training.
Signature Event
Saturday, November 12, 2011
9:00am
The Border Reconstructed and Remembered, moderated by Gary Kremer, The State Historical Society of Missouri, and fe...
Signature Event
Monday, November 7, 2011
6:30pm
Co-sponsored by UMKC Women’s Center....
Signature Event
Thursday, November 3, 2011
2:30pm
Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders delivers his annual State of the County Address in the Truman Forum of the Kansas City Public L...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
6:30pm
What if growing old meant writing the novel you’ve always wanted to write, or painting, or singing, or teaching, or traveling to a place you’ve always...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 30, 2011
2:00pm
Reporter and author Brian Burnes and Katz family descendant Steve Katz launch The Kings of Cut-Rate: The...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 23, 2011
1:30pm
James Young, noted authority on memorial architecture, and a juror for New York’s World Trade Center Memorial Site competition and Be...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 20, 2011
6:30pm
The Black Sea once served as a maritime highway for ancient and medieval cultures. In its depths, an international team of archaeologists and oceanogr...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 13, 2011
7:30pm
In conjunction with the world-premiere of “The Darwin Project,” an upcoming co-presentation of The Friends of Chamber Music and the...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 25, 2011
2:00pm
On the evening of May 20, 1957, an F-5 tornado tore into the communities of Ottawa and Spring Hill, Kansas, and Martin City, Grandview, Hickman Mills,...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 22, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
The third annual Power of Reading celebration features Kansas City authors and new adult readers sharing inspired stories about th...