On Saturday, October 11, the Central Library is open to registered Heartland Book Festival attendees only. Regular services, such as hold pickups, public computers and phones, and public meeting rooms, will not be available.
Sunday, May 6, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Historian Donald R. Hickey, author of The Rockets’ Red Glare: An Illustrated History of The War of 1812, di...
Thursday, May 3, 2012
3:00pm
In Person
Whether an election is about picking a president or passing a tax increase, citizens may find themselves asking: “Does my vote really count?...
Thursday, April 26, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Short story writer and novelist Adam Johnson discusses his work in a public conversation with local author Whitney Terrell...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Husband and wife team Monroe and Jean Dodd take a time-traveling journey across the Sunflower State with their new b...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City author Linda Rodriguez discusses her debut novel Every Last Secret, a murder mystery in which b...
Sunday, April 22, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
The Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre continues its sixth season of Script-in-Hand performances with Ntozake Shange’s...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Author Christopher B. Leinberger describes how government policy over the last 60 years – driven by the auto and oil industry – has e...
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
In April 1862 a Union force under Ulysses S. Grant and a Confederate army led by Albert Sidney Johnston clashed in southwestern Tennessee in the Ba...
Monday, April 16, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
The British Museum’s Roger Bland looks at the successes of the U.K.’s Treasure Act and Portable Antiquities Scheme, legislation aimed...
Monday, April 16, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Irish writer Anne Enright’s The Forgotten Waltz is the followup to her international bestseller The Gathering, winn...