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Top 10 Things to Do in March

March brings with it extra daylight, Women’s History Month, and SPRING! CALS has all the movies, books and entertainment, whether the sun brings you outside or the allergies drive you inside.

  1. The CALS Used Book Sale is back, March 7 -9! After missing the final sale of 2023 due to the Main Library closing for renovations,

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What are you reading, Polk Stanley Wilcox?

On Tuesday, February 6, CALS held a “Wall Breaking” ceremony to kick off the interior demolition of the library. It included a huge turnout of patrons, CALS staff, and members from CDI Contractors as well as the architects from Polk Stanley Wilcox. After a bit of conversation, we discovered how ecstatic they were to be working on the Library,


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Main on the Move

Main Library is now closed to the public to undergo renovations; core library services are available at the nearby Roberts Library. This page will be continuously updated with the latest news.

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Work at Williams

March 4, 2024

 

February 5, 2024

We met up with AMR Architects Kate East and James Sullivan to talk about what’s been happening at Williams. We’ve been discussing how the front door is moving, but this video helps give you a better idea of what that will look like.


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Big Movie Watch with Kanopy!

For ten years, readers have been coming together for our ebook club, Big Library Read. Now, Kanopy users at libraries in the United States and Canada can share their love for film with Big Movie Watch! Kanopy’s new film club is now available to CALS through our existing program.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day,


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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Historical Archive now available

CALS patrons now have digital access to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Historical Archive! Many of you know that the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette was split into two newspapers until they merged in 1991. This collection contains searchable, image edition issues of the Arkansas Gazette, Arkansas Democrat, and Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. This collection is available remotely so patrons can access this outside our libraries;


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Libraries and Loneliness: a New Year’s Reflection from Executive Director Nate Coulter

It must be human nature to want to classify events as either before or after some watershed event. I’m not smart enough to know why we do it but I often hear and find myself saying something happened “pre-pandemic” or “post-pandemic.”

I’m reluctant to start another year talking about a pandemic that for many was a source of trauma but there is value in assessing how we approach issues in comparison to how we did things before March 2020.


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