All Library locations will be closed Wednesday, June 19, for Juneteenth.
Signature Event
Sunday, March 3, 2024
1:30pm
In Person
The 2024 Searching the Psyche Through Cinema film series, which looks to the arts (and this year, to science fiction) to illuminate our understanding...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 18, 2024
1:30pm
In Person
The 2024 Searching the Psyche Through Cinema film series, which looks to the arts (and this year, to science fiction) to illuminate our understanding...
Signature Event
Saturday, February 10, 2024
1:00pm
In Person
Drawing from their respective books, KelLee Parr and Stephen Rowley share their personal connections to The Willows, the most prominent of Kansas City...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 4, 2024
1:30pm
In Person
The 2024 Searching the Psyche Through Cinema film series, which looks to the arts (and this year, to science fiction) to illuminate our understanding...
Signature Event
Saturday, January 27, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
In a special Missouri Valley Saturdays discussion of her new book States of Swing: The History of the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra, 2003-2023, author Li...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 21, 2024
1:30pm
In Person
The annual Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series returns, spotlighting a selection of sci-fi films as it looks to illuminate our understanding of...
Signature Event
Saturday, October 7, 2023
4:00pm
In Person
In a discussion in conjunction with his Library exhibition A Survey of Elemental Gratitude, an arresting collection of photographs of Kansas’ Flint Hi...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
6:30pm
Lady Bird Johnson was no mere White House photo prop.
The former Claudia Taylor once was described by husband Lyndon Johnson as “the brains and mon...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
6:30pm
Aristocratic and sophisticated, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, the wife of Theodore Roosevelt, ran the White House with a sure hand and figured prominently i...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
6:30pm
As the oldest and favorite daughter of Thomas Jefferson, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph was well educated, known on two continents...