Category: CALS Roberts Library Blog

Some years back, my wife and I rented a cabin in Ponca near the Buffalo River. The idea was to snuggle down for a cold weather spell over Thanksgiving week,

Winter 2025 offers many opportunities to view and experience art at the Central Arkansas Library System through exhibitions, events, and workshops!

Exhibitions

From the Vault: A Survey of the CALS Art Collection will be on display throughout the spring,

The art of sending and receiving Christmas cards in the mail has dwindled, though it has not entirely vanished. I remember, when I was young, my parents signing cards and putting them in envelopes,

Recently, I was standing outside an abandoned Presbyterian church in rural Clark County thinking about the collapse of civilizations. Or rather, thinking about how they don’t collapse.

Katherine Phillips Mitchell was born into a home of hope. Although her parents Clem Phillips and Parthenia Nash Phillips lived in the area of Little Rock known as Hanger Hill,

While reviewing the CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas (EOA) usage stats for the month of September, I noticed a huge influx of web visits from South Korea: 8,208 to be exact.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then we would need millions of words to describe the contents of the CALS Butler Center’s Pulaski County Photograph Collection (BC.PHO.2.A).

In March 2024, the Arkansas Humanities Council hosted the inaugural Next Gen conference to connect emerging humanities professionals with careers in the field. During the conference, gifted and talented (GT) educators Brenda Rush (Malvern School District) and Laura West (Hot Springs School District) gave a presentation on place-based learning.

The Central Arkansas Library System hosted another successful genealogy workshop on October 5, 2024, in the CALS Ron Robinson Theater. This year, it was in-person only, so participants got to meet each other,

The online Encyclopedia of Arkansas (EOA), a project of the Central Arkansas Library System, has launched two major interactive features aimed at making Arkansas history more fun and accessible,