All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
6:30pm
Barbecue, jazz, Steamboat Arabia, and the Liberty Memorial, you probably know. But a comprehensive list of must-dos in Kansas City and the surrounding...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 26, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City novelist and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with author Elizabeth Ga...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
6:30pm
The latest installment of the Library’s Emmy Award-winning series, Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III, spotlights one of t...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 19, 2015
6:30pm
Kyle Gann is one of the foremost experts on American music today, having spent almost two decades as the new-music critic for the Vil...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
6:30pm
Kansas Citians go to the polls in April and June to elect a mayor and 12 city council members who will direct the city for the next four years. What a...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 12, 2015
6:30pm
Urban League of Greater Kansas City President Gwendolyn Grant hosts a discussion of data from the 2015 State of Black Kan...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 8, 2015
2:00pm
Richard L. Berkley once said, “I like meeting people.” Before, during, and after his record three-term tenure as Kansas City’s mayor...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 5, 2015
6:30pm
Even before Kansas became a state, Kansans wanted a university. What no one knew in territorial days or in the earliest years of statehood — or...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
6:30pm
Bill Zahner made a tough call shortly after taking charge of the family business in the late 1970s, shifting the focus of the A. Zahn...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 1, 2015
2:00pm
Nobody knows more about the four-legged star of Groundhog Day than Kenneth Armitage.
An emeritus professor of behavioral ecology a...