All Library locations will open late Tuesday, July 9 at 10:30 a.m. due to staff training.
Signature Event
Sunday, April 25, 2010
3:30pm
You have read the Marilynne Robinson novel—now watch the film adaptation of Housekeeping (1987) starring Christine Lahti and dir...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 22, 2010
8:30pm
Kansas City Royals play-by-play announcer Ryan Lefebvre discusses his struggles with depression and how he emerged with a new perspec...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
9:00pm
Daniel Wildcat, director of the American Indian studies program and the Haskell Environmental Research Studies Center at Haskell...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 18, 2010
3:00pm
Searching the Psyche through Cinema continues with the unconventional and haunting Sofia Coppola film The Virgin Suicides...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
8:30pm
Professor Gregory Aldrete explains how the largest city in the ancient world dealt with the perpetual threat of flooding and what...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 11, 2010
4:30pm
In Person
The English Speaking Union is hosting the Fulbright-Robertson Visiting Professor from Westminster College, Fulton, MO.
Dr. Robert Tyler wa...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 8, 2010
8:30pm
David Laskin discusses his new book about 12 European immigrants who came to the U.S. in search of livelihoods, and ended up figh...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
8:30pm
Howard Frank Mosher discusses his new book Walking to Gatlinburg: A Novel on Tuesday,...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 28, 2010
8:30pm
On Sunday, March 28, at 6:30 p.m. at the Plaza Branch, 4801 Main St., DEBATE-Kansas City (DKC) allo...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 25, 2010
8:30pm
Leigh Rubin discusses his new book The Wild and Twisted World of Rubes, a collection of the best cartoo...