Every month, the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies and the CALS Roberts Library collect and report statistics for a variety of reasons, primarily for the Arkansas State Library’s requirements, but also so that we can evaluate the impact our activities have on our community.
As a heritage studies PhD student at Arkansas State University, I spend a lot of my free and scheduled time with my head buried in books and peer-reviewed articles that reveal intimate details about the lives of individuals and communities that have impacted the social sphere.
Sean Clancy of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette recently published a profile of Little Rock romance novelist Margaret Etheridge (who writes under the name Maggie Wells),
The official title I wear is “Genealogy and Local History Specialist.” When people ask me what I do at work, I generally tell them my job is to answer questions.
The heat of August seems a good time to feature something cool and refreshing—and what is more refreshing than a swimming pool?
Seemingly small decisions can have momentous consequences. The recent publication of an entry on Parker Westbrook on the CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas, coupled with the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies’ Lucille and Parker Westbrook Collection,
Little Rock businessman and former Razorback football player Muskie Harris has donated a collection of original drawings by cartoonists George Fisher and Vic Harville to the permanent art collection of the Central Arkansas Library System (CALS).
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The other day, I was in my backyard, where I’m carving out a new garden plot, digging some trenches for the metal edging I was laying down. I started at 8:00 in the morning,
I was flipping through some old Butler Center paperwork when the top line of one message caught my eye. It said, “I appreciate you forwarding the pages about Taylor Swift’s return from Liberia…” My first thought was that I had never heard that world-renowned musician Taylor Swift had ever been in Liberia,
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