Central Library will not have the following services available on Saturday, October 12, due to the Heartland Book Fest: tech services, public computers and printing, and microfilm.
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Lee Ward, owner of the Museum of Funeral History in Independence, discusses 150 years of African-American funeral homes, which in the...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 2, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Purdue University historian Randy Roberts discusses the iconic 1944 football game between the undefeated cadets of West Point and the...
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
David Israel Litan made his living in the oil business, but art was his passion and his gift. His lithographs portraying scenes of Ka...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 29, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Edward T. Matheny, Jr., a civic leader who graduated from Southwest High School in 1940, takes a fond look back at the proud past of...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 26, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
University of Pennsylvania historian Stephanie McCurry offers a new interpretation of the Confederacy that contends the South sowe...
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Richard B. Frank examines the new international scholarship on the first five years of China’s “War of Resistance” against Japan from...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 22, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
The Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre returns for the sixth season of Script-in-Hand performances. The 2012 series,...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
7:00am
In Person
An initiative of Kansas City’s leading business organizations, The Gigabit Challenge solicited business plans from technology entrepr...
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
The artistic team from the Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer discusses their new and imaginative...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 15, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Filmmaker Terence O’Malley discusses his new book Black Hand Strawman: The History of Organized Crime in Kansas City...