The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Monday, June 20, 2016
1:30pm
In Person
Mondays in June, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s four-part series of inside-the-play presentations focuses on its summ...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 16, 2016
6:30pm
Erik Didriksen, a New York musician and Tumblr poet featured in Vanity Fair, BuzzFeed, and the A.V. Club, has cleverly reimagined more than 1...
Signature Event
Monday, June 13, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Early on, the women in Shakespeare’s works tended to be simple caricatures – shrews to be tamed or sweet little things with no discernible independent...
Signature Event
Monday, June 13, 2016
1:30pm
In Person
Mondays in June, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s four-part series of inside-the-play presentations focuses on its summ...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 12, 2016
2:00pm
Author, photographer, and local historian Bruce Mathews discusses Charles A. Smith’s work in the first installment of the Library’s 2...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 9, 2016
6:30pm
From ancient times to today, people have loved nothing more than to listen to a well-told story, a tall tale, a good yarn. Indeed, the spirit of the b...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
6:30pm
When librarians in a township in northern France began wondering late in 2014 whether their centuries-old book of Shakespeare’s works might be a rare...
Signature Event
Monday, June 6, 2016
1:30pm
In Person
Mondays in June, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s four-part series of inside-the-play presentations focuses on its summ...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
6:30pm
His comedies, histories, and tragedies have been performed worldwide for more than 400 years, but William Shakespeare’s personal life remains somethin...
Signature Event
Friday, May 27, 2016
6:30pm
The son of migrant farm workers in California, Juan Felipe Herrera traces his love of poetry to childhood and singing songs about the...