The North-East branch will be closed Monday, August 26 for staff training.
Signature Event
Sunday, February 18, 2018
2:00pm
Cowboy historian Jim Gray, executive director of the National Drovers Hall of Fame in Ellsworth, Kansas, recalls the early days of...
Signature Event
Signature Event
Thursday, February 15, 2018
6:30pm
George Saunders discusses his best-selling Lincoln in the Bardo, winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize for...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
6:30pm
Michael Grauer of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas, discusses the effort by British investors to cash in on American cattle in...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
6:30pm
Military historian Sean Kalic of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College discusses one of the most frightful urban battles of World War...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 11, 2018
2:00pm
Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, spotlighting Jerry Pinkney’s Cal...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 11, 2018
2:00pm
Just before the 2018 Oscars are presented, the Library screens three uplifting, Academy Award-winning or nominated shorts in the latest installment of...
Signature Event
Saturday, February 10, 2018
2:00pm
As part of the Indie Lens Pop-Up film series, the Library and KCPT–Kansas City PBS screen the documentary Tell Them We Are Rising...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 8, 2018
6:30pm
In conjunction with Black History Month, Gary Kremer, director of the State Historical Society of Missouri, examines the journey of Missouri’s...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
6:30pm
Former Defense Department cyber security chief Katherine Charlet, now with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, assesses the rising...