Dee Brown Library
Closed until 9am
Overview
Location
6325 Baseline RdLittle Rock, AR 72209
This Week's Hours
- Sunday 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- Monday 9:00 am – 8:00 pm
- Tuesday 9:00 am – 6:00 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
Brian Martin
About Dee Brown Library
Dee Brown Library is nestled in the heart of southwest Little Rock and offers patrons a wide variety of adult and children’s books as well as CDs and DVDs. The 13,500-square-feet library, which opened in 2002, provides access to public study rooms, a meeting room, and an outside deck and boardwalk that lead from Baseline Road to the library. The meeting room can accommodate up to 50 with a projector and whiteboard available, and additionally has access to small kitchen with sink and microwave.
Dorris Alexander (Dee) Brown is the only contributor to Arkansas literature included in The New York Public Library’s Books of the Century (1996), a selection of the “most significant works of the past 100 years.” He lived more than half his life in Arkansas and, beginning as a teenager, wrote continuously for publication, often long into the night, as he did for his best-known work, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970), which changed the way the world thinks about America’s westward expansion. His daytime profession as a librarian was the key to his international success as a writer: he knew how to find primary sources, such as Indian Treaties written in their own Native American words. His most famous bestseller has the rare distinction among historians of being considered an indispensable reference for Native American studies.