All Library locations will be close early Wednesday, November 27, at 5 p.m. & will be closed Thursday, November 28, for Thanksgiving.
Signature Event
Thursday, October 27, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
In a discussion drawing from her book White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Memphis, a sprawling, river-flanked, music- and barbecue-imbued city some 7½ hours to the south, offers some important lessons in development for Kans...
Signature Event
Monday, October 10, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Seventy-five years after the real-life trial it depicts, Mark Hull of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College assesses the...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 4, 2022
6:00pm
Online
Missouri Poet Laureate Maryfrances Wagner and her counterpart in Kansas, Huascar Medina, talk about their work, t...
Signature Event
Monday, October 3, 2022
6:00pm
Online
Chris Raschka has illustrated more than 40 books, winning Caldecott Medals for The Hello, Go...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 2, 2022
2:00pm
In Person
Joy Poole, the retired deputy state librarian for the New Mexico State Library and co-founder of the Santa Fe Trail Association, e...
Signature Event
Saturday, October 1, 2022
2:00pm
In Person
Join KCUR Community Engagement Reporter Laura Ziegler in an informal discussion with voters’ advocates, including representatives...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer points to what he sees as the reasons for the erosion of public trust in today’s major media, laid...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 22, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Marking this year’s observance of Banned Books Week from September 18-24, a panel of veteran librarians from Kansas City-area libr...
Signature Event
Monday, September 19, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
In conjunction with the nationally touring exhibition Young at Art: A...