All Library locations will be closed Sunday, March 31, for the Easter holiday.
Signature Event
August 21, 2016
2:00pm
Faith healer? Fraud? Or both?
The enigma that was Francis Schlatter emerged in the American West in the late 1800s. In looks, he resembled popular...
Signature Event
August 20, 2016
10:30am
Start your MidAmeriCon II day at the Kansas City Public Library with a presentation by science fiction/fantasy authors Beth Cato and...
Signature Event
August 19, 2016
8:00pm
Doors open: 8 pm • Program: 8:45 pm. In 10 Things I Hate About You (PG-13, 97 min., 1999), a retake of ...
Signature Event
August 18, 2016
6:30pm
Kansas City remembers Charles O. Finley, the unconventional owner of baseball’s Athletics when they made their home here in the ’60s, for parading a m...
Signature Event
August 17, 2016
6:30pm
Fifty-plus years after the creation of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, much progress has been made for women in the workplace. But i...
Signature Event
August 16, 2016
6:30pm
Two of the world’s leading writers of epic fantasy – Tamora Pierce (Song of the Lioness, Protector of the Small) and
Signature Event
August 11, 2016
6:30pm
It's not just bullies in the schoolyard that should worry us. Charles Derber and Yale Magrass point to a larger, mor...
Signature Event
One prominent theologian calls Topeka’s Westboro Baptist Church “arguably the most obnoxious Protestant congregation in American religious history.” I...
Signature Event
August 2, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Less than 100 days before Americans go to the polls, the latest installment of Dateline: Washington examines what has been one of the...
Signature Event
July 31, 2016
2:00pm
From its early days as a cowtown – a jumping-off point to the West and shipping center for meat and wheat – Kansas City not only grew into a Midwest m...