The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
The country continues to struggle with the issue of capital punishment and questions ranging from how fairly sentences are imposed and carried out...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Less than 100 days before Americans go to the polls, the latest installment of Dateline: Washington examines what has been one of the...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Incentives of various types are widely offered to encourage and promote economic development – a point of competition and controversy in a years-lo...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
In the wake of the Super Tuesday primaries, the Library and the Truman Library Institute launch a new season of Dateline:...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Educators and researchers have long recognized the importance of mastering reading by the end of third grade. Students falling short often falter in l...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
The Library, in partnership with American Public Square, launches a series of discussions of polarizing local issues – minus the i...
Signature Event
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The Library, in partnership with American Public Square, launches a series of discussions of polarizing local issues – minus the i...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City jazz legend Angela Hagenbach leads a diverse ensemble cast in an original and unique retelling of the Lewis Carroll cl...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Internationally recognized Kansas City artist Peregrine Honig fixes her creative gaze on Lewis Carroll’s classic work of children’s l...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 27, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
Revamped, revised, reworked, and reimagined fairy tale characters and stories have seen an explosion in contemporary media from graphic novels to t...