All Library locations will be closed Monday, May 27, for Memorial Day.
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
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
Thursday, January 11, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Crosby Kemper III, who served nearly 15 years as executive director of the Kansas City Public Library, returns to discuss his latest project: a PBS-pr...
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
In the latest installment of the Library’s Turning Points series in partnership with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, military histori...
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
7:00pm
Online
In Person
**Join us starting at 6 p.m. for a reception hour with food by Dutzel's Catering, music by The Phantastics, and two special drinks.
The Kansas City...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Former Missouri archivist Gary Kremer, one of the state’s foremost historians, discusses the latest of his 12 books,...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
In a discussion of his book Designing Camelot: The Kennedy Restoration of the White House, historian James Archer...
Signature Event
Monday, November 13, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
Reporters with ABC television affiliate KMBC 9 have spent a year studying the consequences of both the unchecked pile-up of trash in some parts of Kan...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
Richard Kurin, the distinguished scholar and ambassador-at-large of the Smithsonian Institution and founder of the Smithsonian Cultur...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 2, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Bobbleheads of baseball players are a popular giveaway at ballparks across the nation. But why? Phil Sklar, co-founder and CEO of the National Bobbleh...