The North-East branch will be closed Monday, August 26 for staff training.
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
6:30pm
Dan Cameron, artistic director of the upcoming Open Spaces 2018, sits down with Library Director Crosby Kemper III to discuss the ambiti...
Signature Event
Friday, August 3, 2018
5:30pm
The Library again provides a perfect family-friendly starting point for your First Friday outing. Offerings include: Sunyoung Cheong’s Art in t...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 1, 2018
6:30pm
Denis Kitchen, the founder of Kitchen Sink Press, discusses the life and career of the great Will Eisner, a comics pioneer who created the iconic crim...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
6:30pm
Every guitarist has a six-string story. They tell tales of their first guitar, guitars lost or stolen, and guitars that chose the musician. Profession...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 29, 2018
2:00pm
When restaurateur Fred Harvey established his popular Harvey House restaurants along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway in the late 1800s,...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 26, 2018
6:30pm
Historian Joel Rhodes, who led research for the Library exhibit It Finally Happened Here: The Kansas City Riot, April 9-12, 1968...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 22, 2018
3:00pm
From four different prisons over 27 years of confinement, Nelson Mandela penned a multitude of letters to prison authorities, government officials, co...
Signature Event
Friday, July 20, 2018
8:00pm
Doors open: 8 pm • Program: 8:45 pm
Nick (Michael Cera) is brooding over a recent breakup with...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 19, 2018
6:30pm
From Patsy Cline (two days before she perished in a plane crash in 1963) to the Beatles to the Jacksons’ Victory Tour, former Kansas City Star...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
6:30pm
Rutgers University historian Rachel Devlin examines an underappreciated aspect of civil rights history – the crucial role of young African-Amer...