Nixon Library
Open until 8pm
Overview
Location
703 W Main StJacksonville, AR 72076
This Week's Hours
- Sunday CLOSED
- Monday 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
- Tuesday 9:00 am – 8:00 pm
- Wednesday 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
- Thursday 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
- Friday 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
- Saturday 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Manager
April Hicks
Amenities
- Community Pantry
- Birdwatching kits
- Engravers
- Fishing poles
- Headphones
- Teaching garden for program use
- Indoor children's area with blocks, house, kitchen set, and more
- Meeting room with kitchenette, projector, & screen
- Outdoor pavilion
- Public computers
- Public printers with scanning & faxing
- Study rooms 3-person & 6-person
- Telescopes
- Wi-fi
About Nixon Library
Open since 2009, the Esther DeWitt Nixon Library is a 13,700 square-foot building located on historical Main Street in Jacksonville. Our resources include adult and juvenile fiction and nonfiction materials in print and on DVD, as well as the vast digital collection common to all CALS libraries and available to download or stream 24/7. We also have innovative collections such as birdwatching kits, engravers, fishing poles, telescopes, and litter clean up kits. Library users may enjoy free use of public computers, wireless internet access, and three study rooms equipped with dry erase boards. There is an outdoor space with benches, a pavilion and teaching gardens used for programming. A large meeting room features a catering kitchen, projector and screen, AV system, wireless access, laptop connection, and a dry erase board. The Nixon Library hosts educational and recreational programs for library users of all ages. In addition, the Nixon Library is home to Jacksonville’s Centennial Time Capsule and is a geocache location.
Esther DeWitt Nixon was the founding librarian of the Jacksonville (Pulaski County) public library and served there for nearly three decades. The Jacksonville branch library of the Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) was named in her honor in 1992.