All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Sunday, September 18, 2016
2:00pm
President Truman’s American Housing Act of 1949 empowered cities to replace blighted structures with safe public housing, and soon was altered to allo...
Signature Event
Saturday, September 17, 2016
1:30pm
Fifty years ago this month, on September 8, 1966, NBC launched a new science-fiction television series that would become one of the most revered franc...
Signature Event
Friday, September 16, 2016
8:00pm
In Person
Doors open: 8 p.m. • Program: 8:45 p.m. Shakespearean drama dances across the streets and rooftops of New York in West Si...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 11, 2016
1:00pm
Do you play the piano? Help us celebrate National Piano Month by playing a song on our grand piano in Kirk Hall this Sunday, September 11th. This is o...
Signature Event
Saturday, September 10, 2016
1:30pm
Fifty years ago this month, on September 8, 1966, NBC launched a new science-fiction television series that would become one of the most revered franc...
Signature Event
Saturday, September 3, 2016
1:30pm
Fifty years ago this month, on September 8, 1966, NBC launched a new science-fiction television series that would become one of the most revered franc...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
6:30pm
Amid humanitarian crises in Syria and Iraq and debate in the U.S. about how to address them, a panel of Kansas City-area faith leaders sat down in May...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 25, 2016
6:30pm
Irene Tinker helped compile and edit Developing Power: How Women Transformed International Development, a c...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
6:30pm
With the new novel The Cosmopolitans by lesbian author and activist Sarah Schulman, the New York-based Femi...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
6:30pm
From racist cartoons and spray-painted anti-Semitic symbols to protest chants and signs condemning gays, hate speech has a long and perplexing history...