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
Monday, February 27, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Angela Elam, host of the New Letters on the Air radio program, conducts a public conversation with novelist...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 26, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
The Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre continues the sixth season of Script-in-Hand performances with Terrence McNally’s...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 23, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
The Kansas City Public Library hosts local author J. Alexander Greenwood for a discussion about the inspiration behind his first n...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Historian Bud Bowie looks at economic miscalculations by Confederate President Jefferson Davis and other Southerners that in effec...
Signature Event
Monday, February 20, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Historian of the United States Senate Donald Ritchie discusses presidential relations with Congress since Harry S. Truman.
Ritchie...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 19, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Kansas City Star sports reporter Blair Kerkhoff explains why the NAIA basketball tournament in Kansas City was instrument...
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
Saturday, February 11, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Musician/historian James Christopher Edwards brings the Civil War in Kansas and Missouri to life in this musical program about the...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 9, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Jennifer Phegley, chair of the Department of English at the University of Missouri – Kansas City, examines how many of our modern...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Adam Arenson, assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso, examines the efforts of St. Louis’ intellectuals...