The North-East branch will be closed Monday, August 26 for staff training.
Signature Event
Monday, August 21, 2017
10:00am
Kansas City gets a prime view of the celestial event of a lifetime – the first total solar eclipse visible in the contiguous United States since 1979...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 20, 2017
2:00pm
Art historian Joan Stack explores how two 1845 paintings by Missouri artist and politician George Caleb Bingham may have reflected anxiety about Pr...
Signature Event
Saturday, August 19, 2017
2:00pm
Humanity has explored far beyond the reaches of Earth, nearly to the edge of interstellar space (and we’re getting closer every day). We have visit...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 17, 2017
6:30pm
Kansas City-area artist Jessica Kincaid, who works from a palette of colorful beads rather than paint, discusses her work in an illus...
Signature Event
Friday, August 11, 2017
8:00pm
Doors open: 8 pm • Program: 8:45 pm...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 10, 2017
6:30pm
Scott Bullock, who heads the libertarian, Virginia-based Institute for Justice, examines the role and impact of public interest law f...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 10, 2017
6:30pm
Kansas City photographer and instructor Reed Hoffmann offers a tutorial on photographing the rare, spectacular total solar eclipse...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
6:30pm
John Curatola of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College examines America’s nuclear weapons program in the wake of World War...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 6, 2017
2:00pm
The Library marks the approach of Women’s Equality Week (August 20-26) by screening the 2016 documentary Equal Means Equal,...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
6:30pm
St. Louis broadcaster and national travel writer Bill Clevlen maps out a bucket list of sites and experiences for travelers and vacat...