All Library locations will be closed Wednesday, June 19, for Juneteenth.
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
What does it mean to be a “great city”? Since 2018, the Library has hosted public presentations by urban planners and round-table conversations with c...
Signature Event
Friday, April 19, 2024
5:30pm
In Person
To celebrate two decades at 14 W. 10th Street, the public is invited to an all-ages drop-in happy hour on April 19, 2024, that includes refreshments,...
Signature Event
Saturday, November 11, 2023
10:00am
In Person
Parents seeking a good school fit for their children can visit with representatives of more than 50 of Kansas City’s public, private, charter, and fai...
Signature Event
Online
Higher education has been in the news a lot lately as politicians debate the merits of student loan forgiveness and free community college tuition....
Signature Event
Thursday, October 4, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
University of Kansas paleontologist David Burnham discusses his work unearthing several young T. rex fossils in the Hell Creek rocks...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In Kansas City and across the country, anticipation is building for the total solar eclipse of August 21. It parallels the nation’s fervor in 1878, wh...
Signature Event
Friday, November 6, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The 16th Annual Kansas City Storytelling Celebration features a lineup of lively stories, anecdotes, myths, legends, and lessons....
Signature Event
Thursday, November 14, 2013
6:30pm
Few journalists have studied the issue of global warming with the thoroughness of The New York Times’ Justin Gillis, who has...