The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Thursday, November 2, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Bobbleheads of baseball players are a popular giveaway at ballparks across the nation. But why? Phil Sklar, co-founder and CEO of the National Bobbleh...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 18, 2023
6:00pm
Online
Jackie Nguyen, founder of Café Cà Phê, highlights the second installment of the Library’s four-part series on how to make entrepreneurship in Kansas C...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 26, 2022
6:30pm
Online
In Person
Learn about the past, present, and future of vision loss during the premiere of the podcast and video series Foresight, produced by Kansas City’s A...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City has an infrastructure problem. Simply put, it can’t afford what it needs. Dennis Strait of the Kansas City studio of Gould Evans, an archi...
Signature Event
Friday, December 13, 2019
6:00pm
In Person
Start the holiday season with a festival at the Library, overlooking the beautiful Plaza lights. Listen to live music while enjoying cookies and a...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 14, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Some 38 million people, nearly one in eight, live in poverty in today’s America as liberals and conservatives spar over solutions. Researcher and w...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 27, 2019
12:00pm
In Person
Celebrate your favorite books, movies, comics, and all things geeky at the afternoon-long Plaza PopCon.Come dressed as your...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Americans already have seen some benefits, in the form of smaller payroll withholdings, from the new tax law signed last December. But for the most pa...
Signature Event
Saturday, May 5, 2018
12:00pm
In Person
Celebrate your favorite books, movies, comics, and all things geeky at the first-ever Plaza PopCon - a free, family-friendly after...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Former Defense Department cyber security chief Katherine Charlet, now with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, assesses the rising...