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ContraBanned 2018

Southeast-Digital Media Lab Open House 04-28-18

The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela

Plaza PopCon 2018!

Library Snapshot Day 2018

Main Street History Crawl

ContraBanned 2017

ContraBanned 2017 Photo Station

Art Starts at the Library/Indisposable Pop-Up Exhibit

Meet the Photographers

Central Library Room 311

ReBound 2017 Book Exchange and Literary Trivia

#ToImmigrantsWithLove Photo Booth

High Above Kansas City

#ToImmigrantsWithLove Letter-writing Event

Jackson-Clay County Spelling Bee Championships 2-25-17

"All the World's a Stage": Kansas City's Golden Theaters

Digital Inclusion KC

A Setting for Disaster: Kansas City's Black Friday

Library Locations

2015 Events

2014 Events

2013 Events

2012 Events

2011 Events

2010 Events

Entrepreneurs at the KC Library

Meet the Past

Special Collections

The American Royal

Weddings

Library Life

Around the KC Library

Book Spine Poetry

Nightlife

Kansas City Jazz

1940 Kansas City

Indian Territory

The Photographs of F.M. Steele

Alphabet KC Scavenger Hunt - April 2012

Public Art/Civic Catalyst

Snow Days at the Kansas City Public Library - February 2011

The Youthful Spirit of Tom Sawyer

The City of Fountains

Kansas City Police Department

Timeless Trestles and Essential Arches: The Bridges of Kansas City

Fine Rides: Kansas City’s Streetcars

Black Archives of Mid-America Opening Ceremony - June 15, 2012

A Dip into the Past

Back-to-School

Amateurs to All-Stars: The Rise of Baseball in Kansas City

Boys of Summer

The Convention Hall Fire of 1900

Branch Meeting Rooms

Victorian Trade Cards in Kansas City

Welcome, Mr. President!

Black Archives of Mid-America: A Peek Inside

Battle of Westport Reenactment, 1989

Script-In-Hand

I.H. Ruiz Branch 10th Anniversary Party - September 30, 2011

Central Library Room 312

Central Library Room 310

Back to School 2011 at the I.H. Ruiz Branch

Walking the Tightrope

kcICON July 4th Celebration

Hare & Hare

LeVar Burton

The Missouri-Kansas Conflict

Grand Opening of the Health & Wellness Center at the Lucile H. Bluford Branch

Red-Color News Soldier: The Photographs of Li Zhensheng

Book Buddies

1951 Flood

International Festival of Spanish and Latin American Music (FIMEL)

Script-in-Hand: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf

Union Station

Fifth District Congressional Student Art Competition

Electric Park

An Evening With Lewis Lapham

Housekeeping Tips from Michael Dirda

Dance Portraits

Tasha Alexander: Tears of Pearl

Script-in-Hand: That Championship Season

Mark Lee Gardner: To Hell on a Fast Horse

Grand Reopening of the Lucile H. Bluford Branch

2008 Events

Pitty Patt[rn]: Garry Noland with Cory Imig

Women at Work

Mike & Roxie's Vegetable Paradise

Bound for Glory: America in Color

Edmund White: City Boy

Jay Greene: Which Education Reforms are Most Likely to Succeed?

Black Love Stories in Film

Nosotras: Portraits of Latinas

Valentines

Shooting Stars: The Celebrity Photography of Orval Hixon

Orval Hixon Gallery Opening

The Tuskegee Airmen Experience

Gretchen Rubin: The Happiness Project

Mad Science: Weather Wise and Wonderful

Tyler Cowen: Create Your Own Economy

Jacqueline Edelberg: How To Walk To School

The State of Black Kansas City/What Would Lincoln Think?

Kansas City in 1910

Kansas City Brass Holiday Concert

The Fairy Princess: Her Life and Times

Kansas City Zoo

William Poorvu: Cycles, Crises, and Characters in Real Estate

Shawnee Mission North High School History Club

Robert W. Merry: A Country of Vast Designs

Lasting Light: 125 Years of Grand Canyon Photography

Carlotta Walls LaNier: A Mighty Long Way

Andrew Smith: Eating History

Zachary Karabell: Superfusion

Script-in-Hand: The Little Foxes

Romesh Ratnesar: Tear Down This Wall

Steve Lopez: The Soloist

Patrick Dobson: Seldom Seen

Robert Goldstein: American Blacklist

Kati Marton: Enemies of the People

John Ferling: The Ascent of George Washington

Ron Smith: Thomas Ewing Jr.: Frontier Lawyer and Civil War General

Allis and Ronald Radosh: A Safe Haven

Adrian Goldsworthy: How Rome Fell

Bob Levy: The Dirty Dozen

Kansas City Chalk & Walk Festival

Being Latino in America: Our Present and Future

Thomas Larson: Writing the Modern Memoir

Robert Hemenway: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston

Meet the Past Sneak Preview - October 1, 2009

A.J. Jacobs - September 30, 2009

Guadalupe Center

Cuarta Pagina - September 23, 2009

Hooked On Books

Sara Paretsky: Hardball

Andrea Kalin - Soul of a People: Writing America's Story

David Vine: Island of Shame

Joseph O’Neill: Netherland

Jeff Benedict: Little Pink House

Thomas Frank: The Wrecking Crew

The Films of Luis Buñuel in Mexico

Bill Tammeus and Rabbi Jacques Cukierkorn: They Were Just People

Richard Wolffe: Renegade

Norman Yetman: Voices from Slavery

Women, Girls, Ladies: Continuing the Conversation

Jerrold Hirsch: Portrait of America

Meet the Past: John Brown

Paving the Way to Prosperity

Ulf Meyer: Cities of the Pacific Century

Meet The Past: Charlie Parker

Joe Drape: Our Boys

Eli Paul: Art and Advertising as Tools of War

The Wimpy Kid Ice Cream Truck Tour

Meet the Past: Nell Donnelly Reed

Kansas City, Missouri School District

Conversations on Contemporary Art - Lester Goldman

Bernanke Reflects on the Fed's Actions

Jim "Mr. Stinky Feet" Cosgrove

The Reptile Show

Charles Ferruzza: Dining in Kansas City

Chinese Librarians Visit: July 15-17, 2009

Alvin Sykes: The Pursuit of Justice for Emmett Till

Meet the Past: Thomas Hart Benton

Steven Hawley: Galileo, Apollo, and Beyond

The Battle of Gettysburg: Why It Mattered

Faye and Aliza Kellerman: Prism

Drawing the Curtain Back: Reinstalling the American Galleries at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Gary Pomerantz: The Devil's Tickets

Liberty Memorial

Cultivating Kansas City: Food From the City, For the City

Craig Santos Perez: from Unincorporated Territory

A Conversation with Henry Bloch

David O. Stewart: Impeached

Diane Wei Liang: Lake With No Name

Meet the Past: Arthur Stilwell

Script-in-Hand: Antigone

Olga Olivares: Dichos and Other Mexican Traditions

Democracy and the Decline in Local Reporting

H&R Block Business and Career Center

Fred Strebeigh: Equal

Meet the Past: William Allen White

Meet the Past: Jesse James

Sylvia Stoner: Swan Songs

Nathaniel Fick: The Afghanistan Inheritance

Brian Kelly: Re-Inventing the Weekly Newsmagazine for the Digital Age

Tobias Wolff: The Big Read Signature Event

Leonard Mlodinow: The Drunkard's Walk

Scott Tobias: The New Cult Canon

Matthew Algeo: Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure

Meet the Past: Walt Disney

Script in Hand Series: Chicago

Meet the Past: President Harry S. Truman

Fifth District Congressional Art Competition

Dalton Conley: Elsewhere, U.S.A.

A Tribute to Kansas City History, As Told Through Walt Bodine

Lynne Olson: Troublesome Young Men

Postcards - Architecture - Missouri Valley Special Collections

Wendy Kopp: One Day, All Children

Sandra Cisneros: The House on Mango Street

Meet the Past: Amelia Earhart

Bluford Branch Renovation

General Richard B. Myers: Eyes on the Horizon

Meet the Past: Langston Hughes

Barry Strauss: The Spartacus War

Karole Armitage: Punk Ballerina

Drepung Gomang Monks: Sand Mandala Construction

Jeff Guinn: Go Down Together

Aimee Nezhukumatathil: At the Drive-In Volcano

River Market

Mad Science: Marvels in Motion

Steven Hahn: Marcus Garvey Reconsidered

Frank Delaney: Shannon

Melodies of Madness and Melancholy

Cycling Missouri

Bach Aria Soloists

Czeslaw Bielecki: Architecture, Freedom, Memory

Karl Hinterbichler: From Monks to Punks

Script in Hand series presents: The Night Of January 16th

Dennis Okerstrom: The Humor of Mark Twain

Frankie Muse Freeman: A Song of Faith and Hope

Carol Vaness

Azar Nafisi: Things I’ve Been Silent About

Kansas City Parades

Jay Mathews: Work Hard, Be Nice

Dr. Wes Jackson: Lincoln and the Homestead Act

Marion Nestle: Red Scare

Shirley Johnson: A Triumph of the Spirit

Kansas City Star Book Group

Lincoln and Leadership Panel Discussion

Dr. D. Robert Worley: The Evolution of the National Security Council

Nancy Goldstein: Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist

Amar Bhide: The Venturesome Economy

Billyo O’Donnell and Karen Glines: Painting Missouri

Eric Hanushek: Can We Improve Urban Schools?

Mad Science: Up Up and Away

William Graebner: Patty’s Got a Gun

Jonathan Rand: The Year That Changed the Game

Howard Blum: American Lightning

Brigadier General Edward Cardon

Michael Elliott: Custerology

Second Sundays With KC Columnists: Steve Penn

Kate DiCamillo

Eugene Halton: The Great Brain Suck and Other American Epiphanies

Ken Albala, Pancake: A Global History

Maps of Missouri

Kevin Sink: Illuminating Kansas City

Winter Holidays - Missouri Valley Special Collections

Social Entrepreneurship

Women, Girls, Ladies: A Panel on Intergenerational Feminism

Inventions: From Conception to Production

Ann Hagedorn: Your Final Destination

Eleanor Clift: After the Election, What Comes Next?

Marshall Goldman: Petrostate

Cityball

Ann Hagedorn: Your Map to the Country of Writing

Ruiz Back to School Celebration

David Kipen: David Lean and the Romance of Steam Locomotion

Border War

Trains - Missouri Valley Special Collections

Ian Kennedy: The Impressionists and the Railroad

Bill Kauffman: Ain't My America

Steve Weinberg: a Journalism of Humanity

Sugar Creek Branch Renovation Celebration

Inside the Park: An Exhibit of Souvenir Baseball Programs

Ann Hagedorn: Welcome to the Country of Writing

Moshe Safdie: A Report to the People of Kansas City

American Royal - Missouri Valley Special Collections

Bach Aria Soloists

Kessler, Long & Nichols: The City Beautiful

Gigabit Challenge Finale - January 18, 2012

central architecture

Justine Larbalestier: How to Ditch Your Fairy

Thomas Kennedy: Riding the Dog

Peter Mansoor: Baghdad at Sunrise

Richard Moe: Historic Preservation, The Ultimate Recycling

Master Stone Carver from Zimbabwe

The Long Story of Corinthian Hall

Victoria Chang: The Business of Words

A Chain Reaction: Nuclear Weapons, Policy, and People

TANTRUM: Making a Scene 1

Jim Hoy: The Enduring Appeal of the Cowboy

Dr. Dale Herspring: Rumsfeld's Wars

Steven Pinker: The Stuff of Thought

Black Women Executives in Corporate America

A Cold Day In Hell: The Korean War and the American POW Experience

Tom Bloch: Stand for the Best

Turner Meeting Room

Cohen Center

Children's Library Grand Opening

Discover Taiwan: US-Taiwan Relations

Central Library

Kirk Hall

Central Library Conference & Meeting Rooms

Helzberg Auditorium

Durwood Film Vault

Rooftop Terrace

West Mezzanine

Plaza Branch

Truman Forum

Truman Forum Grand Opening

Waldo Branch

Westport Branch

Ruiz Branch

North-East Branch

Bluford Branch

Southeast Branch

Sugar Creek Branch

Trails West Branch