Arkansas Studies Institute

The state’s most comprehensive facility dedicated to the study of Arkansas; includes the papers of renowned Arkansas author Dee Brown; housed in three buildings located on the Main Library campus in Little Rock’s River Market District. Winner of the 2011 AIA/ALA Library Building Award (only five given out worldwide) and of a national design award by the American Institute of Steel Construction. Learn more about the people, places and events that shaped the state's past and will guide the future in a comfortable environment managed by a geothermal heating and cooling system; CALS actively searches for sustainable ways to become a better contributor to Arkansas.