News & Announcements

For Immediate Release
May 23, 2023

CALS Butler Center Names Stricklin Fellowship Recipient
Dr. Lisa Childs to use fund to study the Ouachita Mountains region

Little Rock, AR —The Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, a program of the Central Arkansas Library System (CALS), announces this year’s Stricklin Fellowship recipient.

Under a new law in Arkansas, effective August 1, 2023, librarians will be subject to criminal charges with a penalty of up to a year in prison for furnishing an item considered harmful to minors. This threat will hang over the new process for challenging materials in public libraries that is also created by the law.

Little Rock, AR – The Central Arkansas Library System is excited to announce two live events coming up at Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Avenue. WellRed Comedy Tour, will return on April 29, with two show times. And Luenell will take the stage June 10, also with two show times.

WellRED,

Little Rock, AR – The Central Arkansas Library System is inviting the public to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Hillary Rodham Clinton Children’s Library & Learning Center (CLLC), 4800 W. 10th St., with ten events that will take place from March through July. All events will be free and open to the public.

The celebrations begin on March 16,

The Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) is inviting you to attend a media announcement pertaining to the Main Library renovation and upcoming events for 2023. There are big changes on the horizon for CALS as we begin planning for the time when our Main Library branch will be unavailable. We believe that the best way to understand this massive undertaking is to hear our story and see the vision for the new space.

Little Rock, AR – The Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) has announced the dates for the spring and summer Friends of CALS Used Book Sales. The Used Book Sale will take place March 9-11; with the summer Used Book Sale at Main Library scheduled for July 13-15 before it closes for renovations. Subsequent sales are anticipated to take place at the Port Industrial Hub at currently unconfirmed dates during the renovations.

Nate Coulter, the Executive Director of the Central Arkansas Library System (CALS), has appointed a committee of local historians and CALS staff members to accept RFQs (Requests for Qualifications) from qualified artists who are interested in designing, creating, and installing A MEMORIAL TO AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS WHO SERVED WITH THE UNION ARMY IN ARKANSAS. CALS will select the site and provide landscaping and lighting as necessary.

I’ve never been one to declare my new year’s resolutions.  As one year gives way to another, I try to make some personal assessments:  What am I doing that I might need to alter, or what am I not doing that I might need to begin?  I prefer to think of these as new directions or new intentions.