The North-East branch will be closed Monday, August 26 for staff training.
Signature Event
Sunday, December 4, 2016
2:00pm
As it did throughout America, World War II affected every facet of life in Franklin County, Kansas, from 1941-45. The experience there was captured by...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 4, 2016
2:00pm
Coterie Theatre artists read from the book by award-winning author and illustrator John Rocco about the wonder of a winter storm – in...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 1, 2016
6:30pm
Few inventions have had as much effect on contemporary American society as television. Think I Love Lucy, All in the Family, a nation gathered in comm...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 20, 2016
2:00pm
While some cities owe their existence to lumber, oil, or steel, Kansas City is arguably – or perhaps not so arguably – built on food.
From its...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 17, 2016
6:30pm
Kansas City’s climate is so-so, there are no enticing mountains or ocean views, and the metro area population has climbed only modestly over the pa...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
6:30pm
Farm-to-table dining may be trendy elsewhere, but it’s a way of life in Kansas. In The New Kansas Cookbook: Rural Roots, Modern Table...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
6:30pm
Sixty-one years after the brutal murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till helped ignite the civil rights movement, cable television network HBO has begun wor...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
6:30pm
This event has been canceled at the organizer’s request. We apologize for any inconvenience....
Signature Event
Sunday, November 13, 2016
2:00pm
The Library opens a new intergenerational movie series that welcomes individuals with dementia, their friends, and families.
The...
Signature Event
Saturday, November 12, 2016
7:30pm
Mozart, it turns out, could turn a phrase as well as a musical score. In one of many letters to his wife Constanze – this one bemoaning his mountin...