The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Sunday, February 23, 2020
1:30pm
The Library wraps up this year’s Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series with a final screening and discussion of a film adapted f...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of her memoir Smacked, former New York Times business columnist Eilene Zimmerman...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
Arguments in the divisive right-to-die debate range from legal to spiritual, ethical, and social. Longtime public radio host and podcaster...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 13, 2020
6:30pm
A 17-year-old African American is found hanging from a swing set in the middle of an all-white trailer park in North Carolina. Police quickly de...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
Merriam-Webster has thrown its considerable weight behind the use of “they” as a singular, gender-neutral pronoun, expanding its dictionary definit...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 9, 2020
1:30pm
The Library continues this year’s Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series – featuring films adapted from books – with the 2017 dra...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
When journalist Sarah DiGregorio’s daughter was born nearly three months prematurely, she was cast into a place—t...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 30, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
As sentiment for a new downtown baseball stadium simmers in Kansas City, Vanity Fair contributing editor Paul Goldberger...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 26, 2020
1:30pm
The month’s second Searching the Psyche Through Cinema installment features Francis Ford Coppola’s classic look at life on the...
Signature Event
Saturday, January 25, 2020
2:00pm
In Person
Fifty years ago, Chicago’s Black Panther Party formed an unlikely alliance in one of the most segregated cities in America. Intent on addressing po...