Main Library

The Main Library, the flagship of the Central Arkansas Library System, is housed in the renovated Fones Brothers Warehouse in the historic River Market District. The third site for the library, a 132,000-square-feet facility, opened at 100 Rock Street in 1997. The Main Library offers patrons thousands of books and audiovisual items for children and adults. The five floors feature the Sturgis Center for Technology Training, a public computer lab; dedicated areas for children and teens; reading rooms on the first and fifth floors; individual and small group study areas; public meeting rooms; wireless Internet access; and an extensive reference department.

The Main Library campus is comprised of the Main Library; the Cox Creative Center, which houses River Market Books & Gifts, the library’s used book store and Bookends, the library’s literary café; and the Arkansas Studies Institute, a joint project of CALS and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

News & Announcements

• Beginner's Fishing Clinic with Arkansas Game & Fish Commission
  One fish, two fish, yellow fish, learn to fish. The John Gould Fletcher Library and the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission (AG&FC) will hold a two-part Beginner's Fishing Clinic on Thursday, May 17, at 6 p.m. at the Fletcher Library, and Saturda...
• Arkansans at Work
  May is Arkansas Heritage Month and each branch of the Central Arkansas Library System will celebrate with events showcasing the many different ways in which Arkansans work. A list of all "Arkansans at Work" events follows: Main Library Ark...