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
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Award-winning author Leo Damrosch discusses his new biography, Tocqueville’s Discovery of America....
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
2:30pm
In Person
Urban forestry advocate David Nowak discusses planning efforts to advance an urban and community forest plan in Kansas City.
Nowak...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 5, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space, making a brief suborbital mission that marked the first manned launch of Project M...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas native and renowned baseball statistician Bill James discusses his new book Popular Crime, an examin...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Mexican victory over the French invaders at the Battle of Puebla in1862. Now one of the most popula...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland boarded a friend’s yacht, sailed into the waters of Long Island Sound, and disappeared. What happened was...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 1, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
The Library’s fifth Script-in-Hand season closes with the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre’s performance of Guys and Doll...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 30, 2011
11:00am
In Person
In recognition of Preservation Week (April 24–30, 2011), the Library offers a series of presentations aimed at helping community members save and stor...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Bestselling author...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Historian David Goldfield discusses his vivid narrative history of the Civil War, America Aflame, which off...