All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
6:30pm
Granted, there are creative lone wolves out there. But history and social psychology tell us that success stems far more often from one-to-one collabo...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
6:00pm
In Honor of National Poetry Month in April, The Kansas City Public Library is hosting a poetry night with performances by Rob Love, Angela Roux, and N...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 19, 2015
2:00pm
Kansas mills, located literally in the breadbasket of America, produced an enormous quantity of flour in an era when women routinely baked their famil...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 16, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Sifting through the stacks of her local library in Hamburg, Germany, Jennifer Teege happened upon a book that first fascinated and th...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
6:30pm
For Abraham Lincoln, the road to the future always began in the past – with the Founding Fathers, who inspired him to take up public life, showed him...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
6:30pm
The image still haunts: desperate refugees on a Saigon rooftop, snaking up a ladder to a waiting helicopter and escape from the North Vietnamese on Ap...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 11, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
The Westport Historical Society Speaker Series seeks to promote and foster public interest in and preserve the significance of local history....
Signature Event
Friday, April 10, 2015
10:00am
Come for a Meet and Greet! It's SID, the Science Kid!
He will be on the 2nd floor of the Central Library: Central Youth Services!
Come get your pict...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
6:30pm
The importance of libraries continues to grow. More than book repositories, they can serve as bulwarks against some of the most critical challenges of...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
6:30pm
On the morning of May 3, 1863, on the cusp of one of the most remarkable tactical battlefield victories in American military history, Gen. Robert E. L...