Central Arkansas Library System

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 >

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 >

The writer James Fallows is dropping in on the Central Arkansas Library System this month, but not quite the same way he's grown accustomed to descending on America's towns. read more >

Little Rock ad men Ross Cranford and Jon Hodges are making a pitch to industry colleagues: Join AdClub Little Rock, hear from some great marketing speakers, and help some hungry children while you’re at it. read more >

The library isn’t shushing folks about its plan to redesign its website. In fact, the Central Arkansas Library System is shouting it from the rooftops. read more >

Nate Coulter was named executive director of the Central Arkansas Library System in December, replacing Bobby Roberts, who retired in March. read more >

Renovations at the Central Arkansas Library System’s Main Library, at 100 S. Rock St. in the River Market District, are to be complete this week. read more >

Former Arkansas Governor and U.S. Senator David Pryor will speak at noon Wednesday at the Ron Robinson Theater in Little Rock. read more >

The Central Arkansas Library System board of directors has selected Nate Coulter of Little Rock as its new director. read more >