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CALS is proud to offer Interlibrary Loan (often called ILL) services to all cardholding members. ILL refers to the ability to borrow books, media and PDFs of articles from other libraries outside of our current system. As a member of MOBIUS, CALS offers the option of borrowing books from a consortium of 70+ public,

Magazine readers, RBdigital where one of our digital magazine subscriptions is hosted, has been acquired by OverDrive and has resulted in a few changes. What does this mean for you?  In the short term, it’s a win-win for our magazine readers! The magazines you enjoy reading can be accessed in either OverDrive or Libby. 

Social Distancing got you down? Why not start or revisit your book club? CALS has everything you need to jump right back into a perfect event you can do with friends in the comfort of your own homes. And the price is perfect- free. CALS book club kits contain 10 copies of popular titles and discussion questions for after you’ve finished reading,

I love to read.  For the past 28 years, I have owned and operated a court reporting business, which involves hours and hours of proofreading.  So for many years I have read a lot, not necessarily what I wanted to read, albeit many times quite interesting and informative.

NOTE: DECEMBER 1, 2023:
Thank you for your interest in participating in or volunteering to tutor in our Count Up Math Tutoring Program. At this time the Count Up program is full for students. If you are interested in future openings, please fill out the interest form below.

“If a conversation is hard, it’s probably one worth having.”

The CALS Ron Robinson Theater presents A Conversation Worth Having: a virtual series a part of the theater’s Civil Rights & Social Change Collection of programming.

During the COVID-19 lockdown, the theater presented a virtual watch party each week focusing on a different hero,

Recently some checked-out digital audiobooks were removed from CALS patron accounts even though the due date for those titles had not passed. We want to apologize for this inconvenience if it affected you and want to let you know it came as an unpleasant surprise to us as well.

CALS purchases e-books and digital audiobooks from Overdrive.

Thanks to a generous memorial gift from the family of Alan Ross Kumpe, each CALS branch has birdwatching kits available for checkout to all CALS cardholders. Each kit contains a carrying bag, Celestron binoculars, binocular guide, polishing cloth, lens caps (three), and one book (Birds of Arkansas).

For some additional reading on birdwatching,