The North-East branch will be closed Monday, August 26 for staff training.
Signature Event
Friday, September 21, 2018
8:00pm
Doors open: 8 pm • Program: 8:45 pm
Bust a cappella with the Barden University Bellas...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 20, 2018
6:30pm
In a discussion of her new book Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought Americans into the Twentieth Century, Rutgers Uni...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
6:30pm
Military historian Gregory Hospodor examines the Allies’ “bitter” World War II victory of 1943, a massive invasion of Sicily that too...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 16, 2018
2:00pm
Public historians Diane Eickhoff and Aaron Barnhart recall how hundreds of women defied cultural norms of the time t...
Signature Event
Saturday, September 15, 2018
10:15am
The Veterans Writing Workshop opens with a public presentation featuring Iraq War veteran, author, and poet Brian Turner...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 13, 2018
6:30pm
Jamie Bernstein, the eldest daughter of revered composer Leonard Bernstein, and David Charles Abell, who is conducti...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
6:30pm
Nationally renowned urban thinker Chuck Marohn, who kicked off the Library’s Making a Great City series in January 2018, returns to assess the crucial...
Signature Event
Monday, September 10, 2018
6:30pm
In a script-in-hand performance commemorating Labor Day, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) read select...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 6, 2018
6:30pm
Crime Magazine publisher J. Patrick O’Connor discusses his book Justice on Fire: The Kansas City Firefighters Case and th...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
6:30pm
Jonathan House of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, a leading authority on Soviet military history, discusses one of t...