The printer at the Ruiz branch will be out of service Thursday, August 29 due to repairs.
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
6:30pm
Surveys show that the percentage of Americans with libertarian leanings—preferring to maximize individual rights and minimize the role of gov...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
6:30pm
This year’s Art in the Loop project infuses downtown with a variety of performances and installations by 20 Kansas City artists.
As the four-month...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
6:30pm
Nazi Germany’s defeat of France in May and June 1940 stunned the world. How could the French, the dominant military power of the First World War, c...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 25, 2015
6:30pm
Economics needn’t be shrouded in byzantine theory and mathematical formulas. In a discussion of his new book Popular Economics: What th...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
6:30pm
Opening a five-day series of Urban Grown events—culminating in the...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
6:30pm
The role of women during World War II is little known, obscured by attention to the men who fought and led. But women were essential to the outcome. I...
Signature Event
Friday, June 19, 2015
6:30pm
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David McCullough explores the lives, trials, and ultimate triumph of aviation pioneers...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 18, 2015
6:30pm
Two hundred years ago today, on a sodden Belgian field, one of the greatest conquerors of all time went down to agonizing and ultimate defeat. All tha...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
6:30pm
Time magazine theater critic Richard Zoglin grew up watching Bob Hope’s movies and followed the comedian’s rise to multim...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
6:30pm
The Library launches a new series, Real/Modern: KC, that takes a humorous, opinionated, intimate, and informative look at the mode...