The Ruiz Branch is closed Saturday, September 28, due to a malfunctioning fire alarm.
Signature Event
Saturday, April 23, 2022
1:30pm
In Person
An elderly Native American couple make their last journey together – to Wewoka, capital of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. Frankie is dying and in...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 14, 2022
6:30pm
Online
In Person
U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, whose acclaimed An American Sunrise is the focus of the Library’s Big...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 9, 2022
1:30pm
In Person
The Library continues a month-long series of film screenings in conjunction with Big Read 2022 with the thought-provoking...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 2, 2022
1:30pm
In Person
The Library opens a month-long series of film screenings in conjunction with Big Read 2022 with Smoke Signals...
Signature Event
Monday, March 28, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
The Memphis Belle and the men who flew the famed B-17 Flying Fortress became symbols of the heavy bomber crews and support personnel who helped def...
Signature Event
Monday, March 14, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
You want big-screen shock and awe? Russian director Sergei Bondarchuk and producer Dino De Laurentiis delivered it in Waterloo...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
As the latest wave of infections wanes, how...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
6:30pm
Online
The format of this event has been changed to virtual only. Watch online at yout...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
Beverly Daniel Tatum, president emerita of Spelman College and an authority on racial issues in the U.S., looks anew at the challe...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City has an infrastructure problem. Simply put, it can’t afford what it needs. Dennis Strait of the Kansas City studio of Gould Evans, an archi...