All Library locations will open late Tuesday, July 9 at 10:30 a.m. due to staff training.
Signature Event
Thursday, March 1, 2012
7:00pm
In Person
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Edgar Snow, as portrayed by actor Ro...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
6:30pm
President Calvin Coolidge gets a bad rap, says author Amity Shlaes, who notes that under his leadership the economy grew at a rate of...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
6:30pm
Rebecca Solnit offers a guided tour of the Bay Area through her latest book, Infinite City, which reinvents...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 26, 2012
2:00pm
The Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre continues the sixth season of Script-in-Hand performances with Terrence McNally’s...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
6:30pm
Historian Bud Bowie looks at economic miscalculations by Confederate President Jefferson Davis and other Southerners that in effect d...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 19, 2012
2:00pm
Kansas City Star sports reporter Blair Kerkhoff explains why the NAIA basketball tournament in Kansas City was instrumental...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 16, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
In his memoir Sometimes There Is A Void award-winning South African author Zakes Mda chronicles his yout...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 9, 2012
6:30pm
Jennifer Phegley, chair of the Department of English at the University of Missouri – Kansas City, examines how many of our modern mar...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
6:30pm
Lee Ward, owner of the Museum of Funeral History in Independence, discusses 150 years of African-American funeral homes, which in the...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 2, 2012
6:30pm
Purdue University historian Randy Roberts discusses the iconic 1944 football game between the undefeated cadets of West Point and the...