All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Sunday, May 22, 2016
2:00pm
In the fall of 1918, more than a million U.S. soldiers faced a better trained and more experienced German army on the Western Front of World War I. Th...
Signature Event
Saturday, May 21, 2016
1:30pm
In conjunction with Planet Comicon, Kansas City’s largest pop culture and comic book convention, scheduled for May 20-22 at Bartle Hall, the Library s...
Signature Event
Friday, May 20, 2016
8:00pm
Doors open: 8 p.m. • Program: 8:45 p.m. The Library’s 2016 Off-the-Wall fil...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
6:30pm
While Shakespeare wasn’t a composer, he made his love of music apparent. “How sweet sour music is,” he wrote for instance in Richard II, “(w)hen time...
Signature Event
Saturday, May 14, 2016
11:30am
In Person
In conjunction with Planet Comicon, Kansas City’s largest pop culture and comic book convention, scheduled for May 20-22 at Bartle Hall, the Library s...
Signature Event
Saturday, May 14, 2016
11:00am
As a county sheriff and creator of Utah’s first SWAT team, William “Dub” Lawrence was once an unlikely critic of law enforcement. That SWAT team, howe...
Signature Event
Saturday, May 7, 2016
1:30pm
In conjunction with Planet Comicon, Kansas City’s largest pop culture and comic book convention, scheduled for May 20-22 at Bartle Hall, the Library s...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 5, 2016
6:30pm
The PBS documentary series Latino Americans: The 500 Year Legacy That Reshaped a Nation chronicles the rich history and expe...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 5, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
John Hay and Samuel Clemens grew up some 50 miles apart along the Mississippi River and became acquainted early in their respective careers – Hay a...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
6:30pm
Alexander von Humboldt was, in his time, one of the most interesting men in the world.
The 19th-century explorer and naturalist climbed volcanoes...