The Ruiz Branch is closed Saturday, September 28, due to a malfunctioning fire alarm.
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
In the launch of a new series, Turning Points, in partnership with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, military historia...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 1, 2022
6:00pm
Online
John Musgrave has been candid about his Vietnam War experiences and related struggles, notably as a featured voice in Ken Burns’ d...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 27, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
In a discussion drawing from her book White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 4, 2022
6:00pm
Online
Missouri Poet Laureate Maryfrances Wagner and her counterpart in Kansas, Huascar Medina, talk about their work, t...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 22, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Marking this year’s observance of Banned Books Week from September 18-24, a panel of veteran librarians from Kansas City-area libr...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 8, 2022
6:00pm
Online
The Library and KCUR 89.3 kick off Securing Democracy, a three-part series inviting the community and its leaders to discuss securing democr...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Tiffany Elder, co-chair of a Durham, North Carolina-based consortium called The Collective, talks about its work to facilitate equitable city building...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 30, 2022
6:00pm
Online
Bestselling Kansas City author Candice Millard discusses her new book River of the Gods with the Library’s Anne Kniggendorf. In the mid-18...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 25, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Historian Emilye Crosby of the State University of New York at Geneseo discusses the significance of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the crucial rol...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 11, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
In a discussion of her book Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One, New York urban revital...