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.
Monday, February 21, 2011
10:45am
In Person
The award-winning Up-To-Date program on KCUR 89.3 FM will broadcast a live debate featuring all of the candidates running for mayor of Kansas...
Sunday, February 20, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
Historians Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel and Marilyn S. Blackwell discuss their new biography of Clarina Howar...
Thursday, February 17, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City-based independent writer and producer Jack Cashill discusses his latest book in which he contends President Barack Obama did not write his...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
During the 2003 looting of Iraq’s National Museum some 15,000 priceless objects dating back to ancient Babylon and Mesopotamia were damaged or stol...
Sunday, February 13, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
PLEASE NOTE: This event will take place at the Plaza Branch. The February 2011 Special Events print calendar is inco...
Thursday, February 10, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Ken Gormley, dean of the Duquesne University School of Law, discusses one of the most polarizing political scandals in American history, the investiga...
Thursday, February 10, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Terry Beckenbaugh of the Military History Department at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth discusses the milit...
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Authors Chris Bohjalian and Caroline Leavitt discuss the writing life and their recent books.
Bohjalian will discuss Secrets of Eden, the...
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Film critic Shawn Edwards is joined by radio personality Jabulani Leffall for a discussion of the global impact of b...
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Simeon Wright discusses the 1955 kidnapping and murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till and explains what life was like before, during, and after the tri...