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
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
What, exactly, is presidential leadership? What is the current state of executive power in the U.S.? What lingering effects will the current financial...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Award-winning architect Wendell Burnette discusses his distinctive approach to architecture, one based on developing consensus to cre...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 1, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Historian Julie Courtwright explains the role of fire – man-made and natural – in shaping the Great Plains and the lives of its resid...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 29, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
On the blog: Read an intervi...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Noah Feldman examines how four of FDR’s Supreme Court appointees – Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, and Robert Jack...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 25, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
The Metropolitan Theatre Ensemble continues its sixth season of Script-in-Hand performances with Wendy Wasserstein’s...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 22, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Guy Gugliotta discusses his new book about the raising of the U.S. Capitol, a process steeped in irony.
Even as the majestic struc...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Attica Locke discusses her novel Black Water Rising, set in Houston in the early 1980s. Former campus radical Jay Porter is...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
James N. Giglio describes John F. Kennedy as “the most medicated, one of the most courageous, and perhaps the most self-absorbed of o...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 18, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
On the 100th anniversary of the creation of Tarzan and John Carter of Mars, John Tibbetts looks at the career of fantasy writer Ed...