The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
Barbara Brackman – quilter, quilting historian, and author – examines quilt making in Missouri with a Kentucky connection and 19th-ce...
Signature Event
Monday, May 22, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Andrew McCarthy may be best known for his membership in Hollywood’s Brat Pack and roles in classic films including St. Elmo's Fir...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
Jay Nordlinger has gained a reputation for open-mindedness in writing about politics, foreign affairs, and the arts, among other subj...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
6:00pm
Online
Buki Papillon’s acclaimed debut novel An Ordinary Wonder revolves around an intersex Nigerian teenager whose gender...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 30, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In a discussion of his book The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America, author and personal finance consultant...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 23, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
UMKC professor and author Clancy Martin joins Angela Elam, formerly of public radio’s New Letters on the Air...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 16, 2023
6:00pm
Online
Poet Brian Daldorph, novelist Barbara Stuber, and Journey House Manager Samantha Pettus join the Library’s Anne Knig...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 12, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
Former Sumner High School band and orchestra teacher Leon Alexander Brady recounts an impactful career and its 1972 pinnacle: the...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 2, 2023
6:00pm
Online
The full truth of the deadly collapse of two 120-foot skywalks in Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency hotel in 1981 rested for decades in a manuscript writ...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 26, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
Lawrence, Kansas, photographer Ann Dean discusses the impact and inspiration found in three seminal books – The Learning Tree...