Central Library will not have the following services available on Saturday, October 12, due to the Heartland Book Fest: tech services, public computers and printing, and microfilm.
Signature Event
Sunday, October 2, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
Hasia Diner discusses the great century of migration, from the 1820s to the 1920s, when one third of Europe’s Jews left their homes t...
Signature Event
Friday, September 30, 2011
6:00pm
In Person
One of the staples of Kansas City’s Westside community, the Irene H. Ruiz Branch of the Kansas City Public Library c...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Biographer James Grant discusses his new portrait of late nineteenth-century Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
In his New York Times best-selling book, Frank Schaeffer uses his life as a lens through which to view a larger narrative...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 25, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
On the evening of May 20, 1957, an F-5 tornado tore into the communities of Ottawa and Spring Hill, Kansas, and Martin City, Grandview, Hickman Mil...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 22, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Columnist and political commentator John Avlon discusses his new book Deadline Artists: America’s Greatest Newspaper Colu...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 22, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
The third annual Power of Reading celebration features Kansas City authors and new adult readers sharing inspired stories about th...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Public art and its accompanying community participation contribute significantly to the identity of a city. In addition to inspiring dialogue and pro...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Mark Twain wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in such a fashion that his first novel simultaneously addressed two divergent audiences: the yo...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 18, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
Already an established artist of worldwide fame, Missouri artist Thomas Hart Benton was a natural choice for the Limited Editions Club’s illustrate...