Projects:

  • The Book Club Project
  • With a collection of 200 titles, the Arkansas Center for the Book provides books and support to library-sponsored book clubs across Arkansas.
  • If All Arkansas Read the Same Book (IAARSB)
  • Since 2001, IAARSB has been an annual celebration of reading around the state.
  • Letters about Literature Competition
  • Students in grades 4-10 write letters to authors whose works have inspired them in this literacy-based competition.  
  • Arkansas Gems
  • This poster, featuring new works by Arkansas authors, premieres at the National Book Festival each year.
  • Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Information & Resources
  • From 2011 through 2015, the Arkansas Center for the Book is recognizing the Civil War Sesquicentennial with the publication of a bookmark series, also accessible from this page. Click the link for bookmarks and Civil War information.

    • Contact: Zoe Butler, Coordinator for Arkansas Center for the Book at the Arkansas State Library  email: zoe@library.arkansas.gov   Phone: 501-682-2874

     

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