Press Releases
- Wed, April 22, 2015 Library Observes 100th Anniversary of a Film Genius' Birth, Screening a Selection of Orson Welles' Movies in May
- Mon, April 20, 2015 Stanford's Eric Hanushek Quantifies the Value of Effective Teachers And Urges: Reward Them Accordingly
- Wed, April 15, 2015 From California to Johnson County and Beyond: Mary van Balgooy Discusses a Uniquely American Architectural Phenomenon, the Ranch House
- Wed, April 15, 2015 Writer Joshua Wolf Shenk, Best-Selling Kansas Author Robert Day Discuss the Powers of Two - Boosting Creativity By Collaboration
- Mon, April 13, 2015 KC-Born Author LaShonda Katrice Barnett Discusses Her Lauded Debut Novel, the History-Based Jam on the Vine
- Fri, April 10, 2015 Historian Lewis L. Gould Spotlights Groundbreaking First Lady Edith Kermit Roosevelt
- Tue, April 7, 2015 KC FilmFest Screens a Family Film Classic, Field of Dreams, at Plaza Branch
- Tue, April 7, 2015 Collector Nancy Jo Leachman Looks at Kansas History as Writ on Cotton Flour Sacks
- Tue, April 7, 2015 With $100,000 Grant, Library to Launch Financial Literacy Program Targeting Three Kansas City Neighborhoods
- Fri, April 3, 2015 Author Jennifer Teege Discusses the Awful Reality of Her Nazi Heritage: My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me
- Fri, April 3, 2015 National Review's Richard Brookhiser Examines the Men Who Made Lincoln: Founding Fathers Washington, Jefferson, Paine
- Wed, April 1, 2015 Vietnam War Authority James H. Willbanks Re-examines Saigon's Fall 40 Years Ago This Month
- Wed, April 1, 2015 Rep. Emanuel Cleaver to Salute District's High School Artists; One Student's Work Will Go to Nation's Capitol
- Tue, March 31, 2015 Library Screens New Documentary Hot Type, A Look Inside the 150-Year-Old The Nation
- Mon, March 30, 2015 Educator, Digital Library Pioneer John Palfrey Discusses Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google
- Mon, March 30, 2015 Popular Podcaster Ashley Milne-Tyte Examines Women's Oft-Conflicted Relationship with the Workplace
- Tue, March 24, 2015 Community School #1 Performance Leads Off April's Lineup of Friday Night Family Fun
- Tue, March 24, 2015 Play On, Philly! Founder Joins in Screening of Documentary Spotlighting the Successful Youth Music Initiative
- Fri, March 20, 2015 Historian Ethan S. Rafuse Examines the Events Leading Up to Lee's Surrender In Next-to-Last Installment of Library's Civil War Sesquicentennial Series
- Wed, March 18, 2015 Cornell's Barry Strauss Examines the True Story of History's Most Famous Assassination - the Stabbing of Julius Caesar