The Westport and Bluford branches will be closed Wednesday, June 12 for staff training.
Signature Event
Thursday, October 5, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
Writers for Readers, one of Kansas City's premier literary events, returns with an exciting lineup featuring celebrated author Lan Samantha Chang in c...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Writers for Readers returns with a special lineup featuring celebrated author Alexander Chee and the announcement of...
Signature Event
Sunday, 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
Sunday, 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
Sunday, 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
Sunday, 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
Sunday, 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
Sunday, 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
Sunday, 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...