Month: September 2020

Here’s the truth about election fraud—it’s always been the means by which entrenched elites hold on to their power. Election fraud entails not only the devious misuse of ballot boxes but also acts of violence with the goal of intimidating certain groups of voters. And, if successful, election fraud ends up allowing its perpetrators to enact its aims into official policy.

In May, Butler Center Books published OUTSPOKEN: The Olly Neal Story, by Olly Neal Jr., as told to Jan Wrede. Although we weren’t able to do the big book-launch event we had planned due to the pandemic, we were honored to be able to host a virtual discussion with Olly Neal, guided by longtime journalist Ernie Dumas (also a Butler Center Books author),

Are you stewing in cabin fever and culture cravings? Tired of a lack of safe ways to pursue entertainments or pastimes after six months of social distancing?

Here’s some good news for those who love art and history: the CALS Roberts Library is open, including the lovely Galleries at Library Square and the Research Room on the second floor.

The Central Arkansas Library System subscribes to a number of databases specifically to assist you in your genealogy research. Who knows who and what you might find when you reach into the past to learn about your ancestors?

Some databases are available only at the CALS Roberts Library or your local CALS branch,

The CALS Roberts Library Research Room offers an extensive collection of city directories, primarily covering Little Rock, but other cities in Arkansas as well. City directories can be very useful tools in genealogy research. City directories were first published by the R.L. Polk Company in the 1870s. Since these directories are produced annually, genealogists can track their ancestors year to year as opposed to using census data available only every ten years.