Plaza branch will open late at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 4.
Signature Event
September 19, 2021
4:00pm
The Kansas City Symphony offers a free outdoor chamber concert at the Library, with a woodwind quintet – flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn – pe...
Signature Event
May 20, 2018
2:00pm
Thomas Fox Averill discusses his most recent novel – Found Documents from the Life of Nell Johnson Doerr –t...
Signature Event
Signature Event
February 7, 2016
2:00pm
Join Bernard Norcott-Mahany and friends for an afternoon of stories and songs featuring William Shakespeare and his plays. Recognized...
Signature Event
February 22, 2015
2:00pm
Join Bernard Norcott-Mahany and friends in an afternoon of stories and songs about “love gone wrong,” part of the Library’s A...
Signature Event
August 10, 2014
2:00pm
Best-selling mystery and horror author J.A. Jance introduced Joanna Brady to readers in Desert Heat in 1993. Her fictional A...
Signature Event
February 23, 2014
2:00pm
Join Bernard Norcott-Mahany as he recounts “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (the movie Mitty is not the real Mitty)...
Signature Event
April 28, 2013
2:00pm
Named for a prominent turn-of-the-century business mogul, the area around Jacob Loose Park is still one of Kansas City’s most beautiful areas largely...
Signature Event
July 18, 2012
6:30pm
LaDene Morton, author of The Waldo Story: The Home of Friendly Merchants, traces the history of the district from the Civil...
Signature Event
April 14, 2012
1:00pm
Author Wade Sisson discusses the Titanic’s sister ship, the R.M.S. Olympic, which steamed 300 miles in a desperate...