Central Library will not have the following services available on Saturday, October 12, due to the Heartland Book Fest: tech services, public computers and printing, and microfilm.
Signature Event
Thursday, February 10, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Terry Beckenbaugh of the Military History Department at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth discusses the milit...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Authors Chris Bohjalian and Caroline Leavitt discuss the writing life and their recent books.
Bohjalian will discuss Secrets of Eden, the...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Film critic Shawn Edwards is joined by radio personality Jabulani Leffall for a discussion of the global impact of b...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Simeon Wright discusses the 1955 kidnapping and murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till and explains what life was like before, during, and after the tri...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 6, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
Physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg — teacher and student, respectively — helped define the theoretical limits of the modern age. In Copenh...
Signature Event
Saturday, February 5, 2011
10:30am
In Person
As part of the second annual Kansas City Design Week, a multi-disciplinary panel of design professionals will showcase the breadth and potential of...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 3, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
To commemorate the centennial of Ronald Reagan’s birth, historian Michael Schaller chronicles the life of one of America’s most notable and successful...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Harvard historian Jill Lepore discusses her new book The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Ba...
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
A Tony Award winner for his Titanic and Nine musical compositions, Maury Yeston performs at the piano and discus...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 23, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
This annual film series takes a look at Marriage & Family – Under the Surface, starting with Robert Redford’s Oscar-winning direct...