Central Arkansas Library System
Central Arkansas Library System is a public library system headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States.
The system serves Pulaski County and Perry County, but not Pulaski County's second-largest city of North Little Rock. The system has been described as "a regional doughnut in which [the North Little Rock] Laman Library [System] is the independent hole."[1]
The Main Library in downtown Little Rock is the main branch of the system.
History
The first Little Rock Public Library was one of four Carnegie Libraries in Arkansas. The Carnegie Corporation of New York made a grant of $50,000 in 1906, but increased the grant to $88,100 in 1907. The library was opened on February 1, 1910, at West 7th Street and South Louisiana Street in downtown Little Rock.[2]
Branches
- Little Rock
- Dee Brown Library, named for the author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.[3]
- Hillary Rodham Clinton Children's Library, named for the former first lady of Arkansas.[4]
- John Gould Fletcher Library, named for the Pulitzer prize-winning poet. He was the younger brother of Adolphine Fletcher Terry.
- Sidney S. McMath Library, named for the state's former governor.
- Main Library
- Oley E. Rooker Library, named for an advocate for southwest Little Rock.[5][6]
- Adolphine Fletcher Terry Library, named for an advocate for schools, libraries, and desegregation in the state. She was the older sister of John Gould Fletcher.[7]
- Roosevelt Thompson Library, named for a Little Rock native and Yale student who received a Rhodes Scholarship but was killed before he could begin it.[8]
- Sue Cowan Williams Library, named for a Little Rock schoolteacher who, in 1942, won a lawsuit seeking equal pay for black teachers.[9][10]
- Jacksonville
- Esther Dewitt Nixon Library, named for the first librarian for the Jacksonville Library.[11]
- Maumelle:
- Maumelle Library
- Perryville:
- Max Milam Library, named for the chair of the Political Science department at the University of Arkansas, and an advocate for rural health care delivery and rural economic development in Arkansas.[12]
- Sherwood:
- Amy Sanders Library, named for a long-time clerk for the city of Sherwood.[13]
- Wrightsville:
- Millie Brooks Library, named for an advocate and city councilwoman for Wrightsville.[14]
Specialized facilities
- Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, publisher of the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture (EOA)[15]
- Cox Creative Center
- Ron Robinson Theater
See also
References
- ↑ http://www.lamanlibrary.org/!userfiles/media/Laman%20Library/HighProfile-Jeff%20Baskin.pdf
- ↑ http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?search=1&entryID=6466
- ↑ http://www.cals.org/about/locations/dee-brown.aspx
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- ↑ http://www.cals.org/about/locations/rooker.aspx
- ↑ http://www.rollerfuneralhomes.com/services.asp?locid=&page=odetail&id=16920
- ↑ http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?search=1&entryID=1779
- ↑ http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2632
- ↑ http://www.cals.org/about/locations/williams.aspx
- ↑ http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?search=1&entryID=4063
- ↑ http://www.cals.org/about/locations/nixon.aspx
- ↑ http://www.cals.org/about/locations/milam.aspx
- ↑ http://www.cals.org/about/locations/sanders.aspx
- ↑ http://www.littlerockfamily.com/post/92746/cals-opening-new-branch-in-wrightsville-saturday
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External links
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