The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Thursday, February 9, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
The vitality of Kansas City’s arts community today traces back, in part, to David Hughes’ founding of the Charlotte Street Foundat...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 14, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
One of Kansas City’s greatest entrepreneurial success stories traces back to a picnic table in Loose Park in the late 1970s, when Cliff Illig...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
From modest attendance of 120 at its first service held in 1990 in the chapel of a local funeral home – the Rev. Adam Hamilton has...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
2015 commemorates not only the 125th anniversary of the birth of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, but also the U.S. Census Bureau’s declaration that...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 17, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The Soviet Union’s 1957 launch of Sputnik, the world’s first satellite, was a critical Cold War moment for Dwight D. Eisenhower. What he called “a...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Bill Zahner made a tough call shortly after taking charge of the family business in the late 1970s, shifting the focus of the A. Z...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
On the 150th anniversary of William Clarke Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, Tony R. Mullis of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 18, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
William Quantrill’s August 21, 1863 Confederate raid on Lawrence, Kansas, left nearly 200 men and boys dead and the city in flames. Film expert...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Library Director Crosby Kemper III conducts a public conversation with Roshann Parris, president and CEO of the award-winning publ...
Signature Event
Friday, November 18, 2011
12:00pm
In Person
Global Entrepreneurship Week closes as Library Director Crosby Kemper III conducts a public conversation with...