Missing our Arkansas history programs? We miss seeing you here in person, but while we wait to reopen our doors, we’re going online to highlight some important events in our state’s story.
CALS has its own expert on the Civil War on staff in the person of our head of Adult Programming, Mark K.
I have never loved the public library the way I do right now.
Seeing the halls of the library silent and dark and deserted today, after weeks of absence while working from home, moved me to tears as I finished photographing the empty stacks, empty public service desks, empty study tables.
The few people in the building to provide curbside service and security happened to be some of my most passionate and public-spirited coworkers.
We miss seeing kids at the library! That’s why we’ve been doing lots of programs online, so kids can still see their CALS friends reading great stories. And here’s some exciting news– we put our heads together with the Little Rock Zoo and Little Rock TV and made some videos that have real animals in them.
We may be closed to the public right now, but there are still book elves flitting around inside some of our branches. They can pick up library materials for you and deliver them to the curb for a no-contact pickup at our branch libraries.
When Jean Scheidemantel was five years old, she and her older sister could get on their bikes and ride to their local library by themselves. They checked out books, stowed them in their bicycle baskets, and rode home to read their treasures. Back then, Jean’s favorites were Black Beauty, The Black Stallion,
April is National Poetry Month! There are all kinds of ways for you to celebrate poetry at CALS, whether you want to create your own and share it, hang out with other writers online, enter a contest and be part of a poetry publication, or take a quick break with our poetry readings on “Poetry Radio.”
Poetry can comfort us or give us freedom through our imaginations as we endure our global health crisis.
Little Rock Family Taught This Education Activist to Stand Up for a Cause
Virginia Walden Ford is one of the few people who actually knows the answer to the question, “What actress would play you in the Hollywood version of your life?”
Ford made national news in the 1990s as leader of a grassroots effort to broaden school choice for public school students in Washington DC.
As one of the most influential musicians of our time, Prince spread the funky gospel of love in all its forms. His frankness about sexual desire and experience was shocking to the 1980s world that saw him rise to mega-stardom. Self-appointed guardians of morality railed against his music even as his work shaped a young generation who learned through his funk fusions to love their physical bodies and to dance like the world was ending.
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