The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Friday, September 26, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
The pig is big in these parts. Both Missouri and Kansas rank among the nation’s top 10 pork-producing states, annually putting more than 2 million pou...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 18, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
There are few storytellers like old baseball scouts because, well, nobody collects stories like the guys who spend a lifetime crisscrossing America’s...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 4, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
The year 2012 was a watershed for the Hollywood movie industry, producing the likes of Silver Linings Playbook, Les Misérables,...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 14, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
On this date 99 years and 364 days ago, the Panama Canal opened and revolutionized maritime trade.
It also threw the Panama Railroad and its parall...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Tapped to be Franklin Roosevelt’s spymaster during World War II, William Joseph “Wild Bill” Donovan became a mythic figure in the his...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Well before the famous 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City sparked the modern gay rights movement, Kansas City had its own active gay rights communi...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
11:00am
In Person
In the waning days of the 2012 political campaign, KCUR-FM and the Library join forces to present a live surrogate Presidential de...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 11, 2012
7:45pm
In Person
Join us for a public viewing of the 2012 Presidential and Vice Presidential Debates.
A panel discussion follows each debate....
Signature Event
Thursday, August 30, 2012
6:00pm
In Person
Learn about all the requirements for becoming a poll worker. Participants will learn about the various poll worker categories: judges, voter assist...
Signature Event
Monday, July 30, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman as education reformer Virginia Walden Ford...