The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Monday, August 21, 2017
10:00am
In Person
Kansas City gets a prime view of the celestial event of a lifetime – the first total solar eclipse visible in the contiguous United States since 1979...
Thursday, August 10, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City photographer and instructor Reed Hoffmann offers a tutorial on photographing the rare, spectacular total solar eclipse...
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,...
Sunday, February 1, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
Nobody knows more about the four-legged star of Groundhog Day than Kenneth Armitage.
An emeritus professor of behavioral eco...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
The United States remains the world’s pacesetter in science. The origins of many of its breakthroughs may surprise you, however. A sizable number o...
Thursday, November 14, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Few journalists have studied the issue of global warming with the thoroughness of The New York Times’ Justin Gillis, who...
Friday, March 5, 2010
6:30pm
In Person
A weekend of events celebrating the grand reopening of the Lucile H. Bluford Branch begins with a presenta...
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
8:30pm
In Person
Participate in the International Year of Astronomy when Dr. Steven Hawley—astronomer, astrophysicist and a...
Thursday, April 23, 2009
8:30pm
In Person
Author Dalton Conley discusses his latest book Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, a...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
8:30pm
In Person
The Kansas City Public Library and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources present a series of five programs in March that...