All Library locations will open late Tuesday, July 9 at 10:30 a.m. due to staff training.
Signature Event
Thursday, April 5, 2012
3:00pm
In Person
Elections are the single most important element of the American political system, the process that determines who will lead us. But elections don’t...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
What, exactly, is presidential leadership? What is the current state of executive power in the U.S.? What lingering effects will the current financial...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Award-winning architect Wendell Burnette discusses his distinctive approach to architecture, one based on developing consensus to cre...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Winston Churchill’s 1946 speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, warned that Communism was on the march. Historian Philip White...
Signature Event
Friday, March 2, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
A panel of area composers discusses the enduring beauty and power of choral music. The next day – Saturday, March 3 – their latest works will premiere...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 1, 2012
7:00pm
In Person
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Edgar Snow, as portrayed by actor Ro...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 16, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
In his memoir Sometimes There Is A Void award-winning South African author Zakes Mda chronicles his yout...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 26, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
University of Pennsylvania historian Stephanie McCurry offers a new interpretation of the Confederacy that contends the South sowed t...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Wendell Potter, a former VP of CIGNA, argues that health insurers make promises they have no intention of keeping, flout regulations...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 5, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Library Director Crosby Kemper III conducts a public conversation with former Missouri Governor Bob Holden, explo...