The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Ottenheimer Library has received $13,000 from the National Endowment of the Arts to create a community-wide reading program. Continue reading “Ottenheimer Library receives $13k grant to create community reading program”
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s Ottenheimer Library is the first library in Arkansas to become a Preservation Steward Library in the U.S. Government Publishing Office’s Federal Information Preservation Network. Continue reading “Ottenheimer Library becomes first Preservation Steward Library in state”
Ten University of Arkansas at Little Rock professors have received grants that will make learning more accessible by creating open educational resources for their courses. Continue reading “UA Little Rock faculty members awarded grants for open educational materials”
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock will host an international exhibit of handcrafted books created by Cuban artists. Continue reading “UA Little Rock to host Cuban artists’ book exhibit”
Chelsea Young, library assistant at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Ottenheimer Library, recently began a two-year term as the secretary for the Arkansas Library Paraprofessionals Division. Continue reading “Young named secretary of Arkansas Library Paraprofessional Division”
In 1953, U.S. Army Private Al Puntasecca excitedly wrote to his family that he was coming home from the Korean War after serving a year overseas. Continue reading “War letters on display at Ottenheimer Library”
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has been named one of the 10 best values for online higher education programs in Arkansas. Continue reading “UALR ranked among best online school values in Arkansas”
Library patrons will benefit from the latest partnership between the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the Central Arkansas Library System (CALS).
Through ArkReach, a new joint online program, UALR staff and students can use their university-issued library cards to borrow and return select materials from CALS without ever visiting one of the system’s branches. Similarly, CALS patrons can reserve and receive UALR materials without setting foot on campus.
“No longer will CALS patrons have to place interlibrary loan requests and then wait to borrow books from UALR,” said Carol Coffey, head of CALS’ Library Resources and Digital Services. “ArkReach will allow them to place holds on the UALR materials themselves and receive the books in just a few days as easily as they receive books from other CALS branches.”
The program increases the accessibility of materials like fiction, videos, and CDs for UALR’s faculty and students, while giving CALS patrons an opportunity to reserve some scholarly materials unique to UALR. It’s available through the online catalog of both institutions.
“We are pleased that ArkReach will expand our partnership with the Central Arkansas Library System and enhance our commitment to our students, faculty, and university community,” said Deborah J. Baldwin, associate provost of UALR Collections and Archives.
“In times of increased materials costs, partnerships like this one offer a smart way to expand the institutions’ already rich collections.”
While the program currently is a partnership between the two institutions, those involved hope to extend its scope — and its benefits — throughout the state of Arkansas by welcoming other library systems in the future.
The official launch of ArkReach coincides with another cooperative effort of the institutions: CALS Library Card Day at Ottenheimer Library on the UALR campus.
From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24, UALR students and staff can sign up at the campus library for a CALS card. The card entitles users to free online access to music, movies, magazines, TV programs, eBooks and audiobooks as well as the entire CALS collection.
On Thursday, CALS staff members will demonstrate the online features available through its network, and Ottenheimer staff will provide demonstrations of ArkReach.
UALR is a metropolitan research university that provides a quality education through flexible learning and internship opportunities. In addition to its main Little Rock campus, 2801 S. University Ave., the university includes the William H. Bowen School of Law, 1201 McMath Ave., Little Rock, and the UALR Benton Center, 410 River St., Benton.
The Central Arkansas Library System has 14 branches in Pulaski and Perry counties. CALS libraries in Little Rock include: Main Library, 100 Rock St.; Hillary Rodham Clinton Children’s Library and Learning Center, 4800 W. 10th St.; Dee Brown Library, 6325 Baseline Road; Fletcher Library, 823 North Buchanan St.; McMath Library, 2100 John Barrow Road; Oley E. Rooker Library, 11 Otter Creek Court; Terry Library, 2015 Napa Valley Drive; Thompson Library, 38 Rahling Circle; and Williams Library,1800 Chester St.
CALS libraries in surrounding communities include: Max Milam Library, 609 Aplin Ave, Perryville; Maumelle Library, 10 Lake Pointe Drive, Maumelle; Esther D. Nixon Library, 703 W. Main St., Jacksonville; Amy Sanders Library, 31 Shelby Drive, Sherwood; and Millie M. Brooks Library, 13024 Highway 365 S., Wrightsville.
For more information, contact the UALR Ottenheimer Library at 501-569-3123.
Students and visitors to the UALR Ottenheimer Library needing on-the-go refreshments will notice that a new coffee cart is now open in the library lobby. Continue reading “Library now offers on-the-go refreshments”
Clea Lutz Hupp, associate professor of history at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, highlights diplomatic efforts in the Middle East in her recently published book, The United States and Jordan: Middle East Diplomacy during the Cold War. Continue reading “Historian publishes book on Middle East and Cold War”