See all the upcoming library events below or visit the main events page at www.mysaline.com/events
Around the World in 8 Games – Catan
Date: Monday, June 24, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: Meeting Room- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Come explore the traditional gaming world. Each week we will learn and play a different board game that originated from outside of the United States including Go, Canasta, Cribbage, Pachisi, and more.
Catan is a less traditional game as it was invented in Germany in 1995. In this game, a group of settlers must negotiate for survival while still trying to earn the most victory points.
Dive In Ocean Storytime
Date: Monday, June 24, 2024
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Presenter: Amanda Ball
Location: Meeting Room- Bryant
Branch: Mabel Boswell Memorial Library- Bryant
Come join Ms. Amanda for a story about ocean animals. There will be music and movement, and a craft towards the end of the storytime. Let’s dive on in!
Makerspace Camp
Date: Monday, June 24, 2024
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: Makerspace- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Join us on an arts and crafts adventure in the amazing Makerspace! We’ll make a new project every week and participatnts get to take home what they’ve made. For ages 8-18. Registration required.
Summer of Boardom: Tween Board Game Club
Date: Monday, June 24, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Presenter: Amanda Ball & Jordan Sandlin
Location: Storytime Room
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
The library has so many board games to play! Bring your friends or your own board game to share at this low-key board game program for tweens ages 9-12. Come for a short time or stay for the full two hours, there will be games to play either way. Let’s have an adventure and learn new games at the library!
Cancelling/Rescheduling Events
Staff reserve the right to modify, postpone and/or cancel events due to safety concerns. If an event is cancelled, notices will be on our Facebook, website, and doors (if if is in-person). Registrants will be notified if it is a registration required event.
Library Card and PIN
When registration asks for your library card number, you can put that in to save time and pull data from your library card account to auto fill the demographic questions. If you don’t have a library card or do not want to auto fill your information, just skip the library card and PIN questions.
Photographing/Recording
By being at the Saline County Library and participating in public programs, you are granting our staff permission to photograph or video record you and/or your child. These photographs and videos may be used for social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, on our website, or on marketing or promotional materials.
Monday Hangouts: Summer Edition
Date: Monday, June 24, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Presenter: Callie Graham
Location: Teen Area
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Just like the days, Monday Hangouts are longer during the summer! Come play a game that takes a while like Risk, Monopoly, Ticket to Ride and more. Drop-in (or out) whenever.
Makerspace Open Hours
Date: Monday, June 24, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Makerspace- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Drop by the Makerspace to utilize our amazing array of materials and equipment. Work on a project or learn something new! During Open Hours, Makerspace functions as an open workspace stocked with numerous tools, materials and equipment for independent creative time. Bring a project you’re working on or come with your imagination and create to your heart’s content. Take home what you make!
First come, fist serve on all equipment, including 3-D printer, Glowforge, Cricut, and Silhouette. For a full list of Makerspace equipment and rules, visit our Makerspace page on our website.
Makerspace Open Hours
Date: Monday, June 24, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Makerspace- Bryant
Branch: Mabel Boswell Memorial Library- Bryant
Drop by the Makerspace to utilize our amazing array of materials and equipment. Work on a project or learn something new! During Open Hours, Makerspace functions as an open workspace stocked with numerous tools, materials and equipment for independent creative time. Bring a project you’re working on or come with your imagination and create to your heart’s content. Take home what you make!
For a full list of Makerspace equipment and rules, visit our Makerspace page on our website.
Magic Mondays
Date: Monday, June 24, 2024
Time: 6:00 PM – 6:50 PM
Presenter: Geoff Greaves
Location: Meeting Room- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Magic: The Gathering is an exciting, fantasy-based, deck-building card game where players use their wits to summon artifacts and creatures held in their deck to defeat their opponent.
Whether you are brand-new to the scene and want to find out more about it, or you are a seasoned player, all are welcome at our table. No deck required to join in the fun.
Tech Tuesday
Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Meeting Room- Bryant
Branch: Mabel Boswell Memorial Library- Bryant
Drop-in anytime 10am-12pm on Tech Tuesdays for personal help with everything involving tech: printing, scanning, downloading eBooks, using your tablet, formatting documents, etc!
Toddler Storytime
Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: Storytime Room
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Join Mrs. Wendy for this fun, active storytime designed just for toddlers. We will enjoy rhymes, flannel stories, songs, books, and instruments. After storytime, we will enjoy some play time together. This storytime is designed for children 3 & under, but all children are welcome.
Adult Craft Hour
Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: Makerspace- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Join us for a new craft every week in the Makerspace!
We’ll try out a different craft every Tuesday from jewelry making to custom cards.
This week, we’ll be making handmade greeting cards.
All materials will be provided. Patrons will get to take home what they make!
Adults only. Registration required.
I Survived….Book Club!
Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Presenter: Dana Bloch
Location: Storytime Room
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Children ages 6-10 can join Ms. Dana to talk about history, disasters, survival and books! No reading ahead required!
Jurassic Adventure: Dungeons & Dinosaurs
Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Meeting Room- Bryant
Branch: Mabel Boswell Memorial Library- Bryant
Come trek through the jungles in a new Jurassic Adventure one-shot each week played using the TTRPG, Dungeons & Dragons 5e.
This series of one-shots will be full of dinosaurs and each week you will get to play a different level character to defeat the challenging fight ahead. Players are encouraged to bring their own character, or Ms. Chelsea will have a limited number of pre-made characters for you to use.
Players must be ages 13 – 18 and finished with 7th grade, but no older than graduated high school in 2024.
Makerspace Open Hours
Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Location: Makerspace- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Drop by the Makerspace to utilize our amazing array of materials and equipment. Work on a project or learn something new! During Open Hours, Makerspace functions as an open workspace stocked with numerous tools, materials and equipment for independent creative time. Bring a project you’re working on or come with your imagination and create to your heart’s content. Take home what you make!
First come, fist serve on all equipment, including 3-D printer, Glowforge, Cricut, and Silhouette. For a full list of Makerspace equipment and rules, visit our Makerspace page on our website.
Makerspace Open Hours
Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Makerspace- Bryant
Branch: Mabel Boswell Memorial Library- Bryant
Drop by the Makerspace to utilize our amazing array of materials and equipment. Work on a project or learn something new! During Open Hours, Makerspace functions as an open workspace stocked with numerous tools, materials and equipment for independent creative time. Bring a project you’re working on or come with your imagination and create to your heart’s content. Take home what you make!
For a complete list of Makerspace equipment and rules, visit our Makerspace page on our website.
Mommy and Me Craft
Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:15 AM
Presenter: Chloe Bridges
Location: Meeting Room- Bryant
Branch: Mabel Boswell Memorial Library- Bryant
Come join Ms. Amanda and Ms. Chloe for crafting fit for parents and children. The children will go to the storytime room and play and make a craft with Ms.Amanda. The parents will join Ms.Chloe outside the room for adult crafting.
Storytime and More: Big Poppa Bubble
Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Presenter: Big Poppa Bubble
Location: Parking Lot- East End
Branch: East End Branch
Kids of all ages, join Big Poppa Bubble and have fun with bubbles!
Plum Bayou State Park and Adventures From the Past
Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: Lower Commons
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Come learn with us about adventures in Arkansas’ past with our friends from the Plum Bayou State Park.
Makerspace Open Hours
Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Makerspace- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Drop by the Makerspace to utilize our amazing array of materials and equipment. Work on a project or learn something new! During Open Hours, Makerspace functions as an open workspace stocked with numerous tools, materials and equipment for independent creative time. Bring a project you’re working on or come with your imagination and create to your heart’s content. Take home what you make!
First come, fist serve on all equipment, including 3-D printer, Glowforge, Cricut, and Silhouette. For a full list of Makerspace equipment and rules, visit our Makerspace page on our website.
Makerspace Open Hours
Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Makerspace- Bryant
Branch: Mabel Boswell Memorial Library- Bryant
Drop by the Makerspace to utilize our amazing array of materials and equipment. Work on a project or learn something new! During Open Hours, Makerspace functions as an open workspace stocked with numerous tools, materials and equipment for independent creative time. Bring a project you’re working on or come with your imagination and create to your heart’s content. Take home what you make!
For a complete list of Makerspace equipment and rules, visit our Makerspace page on our website.
Inklings Writer’s Group
Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Time: 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Location: Meeting Room- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Do you enjoy writing? Would you like to meet other writers for fellowship, discussions about the writing life, and peer feedback? If so, the Inklings Writer’s Group is for you!
Come early at 5:00 PM for general chit chat, but stay for sharing, discussion, and writing-fun starting around 5:30 PM.
This month’s writing prompt:
Epistolary Short Story: Letter from Camp – write a letter from a kid’s point of view of their first week at camp.
Makerspace Open Hours
Date: Thursday, June 27, 2024
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Makerspace- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Drop by the Makerspace to utilize our amazing array of materials and equipment. Work on a project or learn something new! During Open Hours, Makerspace functions as an open workspace stocked with numerous tools, materials and equipment for independent creative time. Bring a project you’re working on or come with your imagination and create to your heart’s content. Take home what you make!
First come, fist serve on all equipment, including 3-D printer, Glowforge, Cricut, and Silhouette. For a full list of Makerspace equipment and rules, visit our Makerspace page on our website.
Building History
Date: Thursday, June 27, 2024
Time: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Location: Gann Museum Exhibit Room
Branch: Gann Museum
“Building History” features seven historic buildings in Benton, Bryant, and Bauxite. The Saline County Courthouse is one of them. The other six buildings serve completely different functions. They are the Gann House, the Hyten House, the Tull-Banks House, Bauxite Community Hall, and the Shoppach House. The exhibits highlight the history of each building and the many significant events that have made each place so important to our community.
Take a personal tour, guided by our Special Collections Assistant to learn more. The exhibit will be open for viewing Thursdays – Saturdays from 9 AM – 3 PM during normal Gann Museum hours. The last day to view the exhibit is Saturday, July 27th.
While a reservation is not required, we recommend parties of 5 or more call ahead at 501-778-5513.
Tummy Time Tots
Date: Thursday, June 27, 2024
Time: 9:30 AM – 10:15 AM
Location: Storytime Room
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
This is a lapsit program for infants. Join us for songs, books and bonding!
Adventures in Storytime
Date: Thursday, June 27, 2024
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Presenter: Dana Bloch & Jordan Sandlin
Location: Storytime Room
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
There’s always an adventure at the Saline County Library! Bring your preschooler to participate in a fun, adventure filled storytime with songs, movement, and silly action packed stories.
Accessibility
The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.
Accompanying Adults
Children younger than five (5) years of age such as those attending the Lapsit, Toddler Time or Storytimes must be accompanied by an adult at all times and throughout all programs.
Cancelling/Rescheduling Events
Staff reserve the right to modify, postpone and/or cancel events due to safety concerns. If an event is cancelled, notices will be on our Facebook, website, and doors (if if is in-person). Registrants will be notified if it is a registration required event
Photographing/Recording
By being at the Saline County Library and participating in public programs, you are granting our staff permission to photograph or video record you and/or your child. These photographs and videos may be used for social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, on our website, or on marketing or promotional materials.
See the main events page for all of the Saline County events listings: www.mysaline.com/events