Central Arkansas Library System

Wing, a former state representative with a background in TV journalism, was named to lead Arkansas PBS in September. read more >

What started as a monthly art crawl 20 years ago has become a cornerstone of Little Rock’s small business ecosystem. read more >

The $31.5 million renovation created more usable space for a host of new amenities. read more >

CALS had been planning to reopen its flagship location on Sept. 20 after a two-year, $31.5 million renovation project. read more >

Little Rock’s decision to spend $2.5 million to study a deck park is profoundly wasteful. read more >

The two-year project, overseen by CDI Contractors, will offer new amenities and more space for families, teens and adults. read more >

Progress north of the river offers lessons for downtown Little Rock revitalization. read more >

Funds will be used to build capacity for the system's Memory Lab, which was established in May 2022 to give patrons the resources to digitize their family photographs, personal VHS/Beta video cassettes and audio cassettes. read more >

In addition to facing staffing shortages, higher labor costs and low reimbursement rates, Arkansas Children’s faces a new threat: a rise in workplace violence. read more >

A coalition that includes the Central Arkansas Library System in Little Rock filed the challenge to the law, which takes effect Aug. 1. The law also creates a new process to challenge library materials and request that they be relocated to areas not accessible by kids. read more >

In Arkansas, Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a law, set to take effect this summer, that could impose criminal penalties on librarians who knowingly provide "harmful" materials to minors. read more >

If you had no idea that Central Arkansas Library System members can check out a fishing pole with a book on angling, or binoculars with a book on birdwatching, or seeds with a primer about gardening, or cooking supplies with recipe books, don’t feel ignorant. read more >

The Central Arkansas Library System Foundation gets a $225,000 grant from the Windgate Foundation. read more >

Eliza Borné, the Little Rock native who became editor of Oxford American magazine at 28 and led it to renewed recognition, is leaving the quarterly this month to become director of development for the Central Arkansas Library System. read more >

Entegrity of Little Rock is building a solar array for the Central Arkansas Library System to provide electricity and savings of a million dollars over 25 years. read more >

The Walton Family Foundation announced Wednesday that it has or will distribute $500,000 to Little Rock nonprofits, to help meet the needs of local students through the Community Support Grant Program. read more >

Bumper-sticker mentality was a problem before social media, but it required acquiring a bumper sticker and deciding that sharing a nuance-free opinion with tail-gaters was worth putting sticky gunk on the car’s bumper. Now spreading opinions — and, all too often, demonstrably false information from unknown sources — can be done with a click. read more >

ReMix Founder Benito Lubazibwa believes Black business ownership is a path to wealth creation and that increasing it will reduce the racial wealth gap that is quickly widening in the United States. read more >

New circulation figures from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette show the statewide daily with about a third of the paid readership it had just 10 years ago. read more >

James Fallows has “sort of a primitive and possibly self-destructive aversion” to revisiting the topics of his dozen books. But revisiting friends, as he plans to do Thursday in Little Rock, is different. read more >