From the ArLA President:.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Pierce, Shawn
- Source
- Arkansas Libraries. Spring2011, Vol. 68 Issue 1, p2-3. 2p. 2 Color Photographs.
- Subject
- *LIBRARY associations
*CENTENNIALS
*ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.
*PUBLIC libraries
- Language
- ISSN
- 0004-184X
The author reflects on the history of the Arkansas Library Association (ArLA) on the occasion of its centennial celebration. The author enumerates several notable achievements by the association in its 100 years of existence which began in 1911 initially with eight public libraries. Included are brief histories of the original eight libraries comprising ArLA which today has grown to 231 libraries serving some 2.9 million people in Arkansas.