The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Think barbecue is all Kansas City has to offer? Matt Stewart says that’s far, far from true. The Fox4 News reporter discusses his new book...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Writers for Readers returns with a special lineup featuring celebrated author Alexander Chee and the announcement of...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 6, 2022
2:00pm
In Person
Drawing from some two decades of interviews and conversations, chronicled in his recently released book John “Buck” O’Neil: The Rookie,...
Signature Event
Online
In Person
Marking this year’s observance of Banned Books Week from September 18-24, a panel of veteran librarians from Kansas City-area libr...
Signature Event
Monday, September 19, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
In conjunction with the nationally touring exhibition Young at Art: A...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 11, 2022
2:00pm
In Person
In a discussion of her book Beneath Missouri Skies...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 25, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Historian Emilye Crosby of the State University of New York at Geneseo discusses the significance of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the crucial rol...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 11, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
In a discussion of her book Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One, New York urban revital...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 28, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Award-winning essayist and poet Taylor Brorby discusses his new memoir Boys and Oil, recounting the uneasiness of being gay in a rugged land of coa...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Get the scoop behind Kansas City’s newest, biggest, and most family-friendly scavenger hunt. Anne Kniggendorf, a writer and editor at the Li...