Month: June 2018

More Pool Side Reads

One of the great pleasures of summer is lounging on the beach or a pool deck and reading a good book. But what to read? The staff at Fletcher Library has some suggestions. Today’s theme: YA reads for grownups. Relive long summers and teen angst with these great titles.



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Join Our Conversations for CALS OneRead and Make New Connections

Why do we read together?

CALS OneRead is an event where we all decide to read the same book at the same time, and then get together to talk (and frequently joke and banter) about our reactions and thoughts.

This summer, the CALS OneRead choice is a futuristic novel and national bestseller titled Station Eleven.


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View the Summer Night Sky with Help from CALS and NPR

Did you know the Central Arkansas Library System and the Central Arkansas Astronomical Society have partnered to make fourteen telescopes available for lending to CALS cardholders? The telescopes are 4.5″ Orion StarBlast Newtonian instruments that gather several hundred times more light than the unaided eye and magnify up to 56 times. They are particularly suited to observing the moon and the brighter planets,


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Pool Side Reads

One of the great pleasures of summer is lounging on the beach or a pool deck and reading a good book. But what to read? The staff at Fletcher Library has some suggestions. Today’s theme: the morning swim with coffee.



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Volcanic Reading for the Long, Hot Summer

This year, volcanoes have simmered in Hawaii and erupted in Guatemala, at great human cost.  After tragedy, we have questions that are scientific, mythical, and personal. How well can scientists predict when lava will flow and ash rain from the sky? How do human beings live with the constant threat that the earth will crack open to send a river of fire over their homes?


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Books to Film

It’s cliché because it’s true: the book really is better than the movie. Before the forthcoming movies based on these books debut, check out the source material used by the filmmakers.



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Crafty Adults and Teens Find Creative Community in Summer Gatherings

Our libraries offer a warm welcome and free crafting sessions for adults and teens!  Time to get together for some funky, original arts and crafts projects that will take you straight to your happy creative place.

Makers have a chance to unleash paints, markers, clay, and more in workshops across all library branches through June,


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Arkansas Symphony Youth Orchestra Rocks the House with Interactive Music

Talented young musicians are inspiring kids throughout the library system with live music as well as a chance to put hands on musical instruments and even play the violin.

This free interactive music lesson with members of the Arkansas Symphony Youth Orchestra will take place throughout June and July at many branches of the Central Arkansas Library System as part of the CALS Summer Reading Club,


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