News & Announcements

CALS Announces New Hours for Multiple Locations

Beginning Sunday, January 5, 2020, Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) will have new hours of operation at several library branches. These changes align with the library system’s three-year strategic plan that was put into place earlier this year.


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Libraries to Open Meeting Spaces to Students Affected by Strike

The Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) will open meeting spaces at seven Little Rock area branch libraries early on Thursday, November 14, to accommodate students while the Little Rock Education Association (LREA) conducts a one-day strike.


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Library Welcomes ACLU President for Speakers Series

CALS invites community to Ron Robinson Theater for Susan Herman presentation

Who: Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) and the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service will host American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) President Susan N.


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CALS Announces Fall Speaker Series Lineup

Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) welcomes Walter E. Hussman Jr., publisher of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, and Susan N. Herman, president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), this fall as part of the CALS Speakers Series.


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CALS Collecting Stories for Vietnam War Project

The Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) is celebrating Tim O’Brien’s classic The Things They Carried, a collection of short stories centered on the Vietnam War, as part of the National Endowment for the Arts’ Big Read program and is seeking to record oral histories with Arkansas Vietnam War veterans for a project of the CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies.


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