See all the upcoming library events below or visit the main events page at www.mysaline.com/events
Morning Makers
Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: Makerspace- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Start your day with creativity! Join us for an adults only, fun, easy craft session for all skill levels. All supplies are provided, and you’ll take home your creation!
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Toddler Storytime
Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Presenter: Wendy Christy
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.
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Toddler Storytime
Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Presenter: Wendy Christy
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.
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Canasta Club
Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location: Meeting Room- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Learn to play Canasta, a classic card game that mixes all the fun parts of Bridge and Rummy. Bring some friends along or just come and make some new ones. No prior gameplay experience needed.
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Makerspace Open Hours
Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Location: Makerspace- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Drop by the Makerspace to explore our amazing array of materials and equipment. Work on a project or learn something new! During Open Hours, the Makerspace serves as an open workspace filled with various tools, materials, and equipment for independent creative work. Bring a project you’re working on, or come with your imagination and create to your heart’s content. Take home what you make!
Check out all of the equipment available on our website!
Children ages 5-12 must have an adult supervising them at all times in the Makerspace. No children under 5 years are permitted in the Makerspace.
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Makerspace Open Hours
Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM – 5:30 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.
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D&D Campaign A – Table Closed
Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Location: Teen Area
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
This table is a continuation of our Fall 2024 campaign and is closed.
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Tween D&D — Registration Full
Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Presenter: Jordan Sandlin
Location: Lower Commons
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Registration is now full! Check back next semester for more Tween D&D opportunities!
Welcome to our ongoing Town of Tumbledowns campaign. The boarding house has vanished! Time to get to the bottom of this new mystery.
This group of D&D will meet every other week. It’s designed for kids that have either played with Ms. Jordan as a GM before, or have played many home games with their family or friends. We’ll be useing D&D 5E (2014). The players are welcome to create their own character sheet to bring to the game, or use any of the pregenerated character sheets I’ll have on hand. We look forward to adventuring with you!
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.
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.
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Anime Club
Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Presenter: Callie Graham
Location: Meeting Room- Bryant
Branch: Mabel Boswell Memorial Library- Bryant
Love anime? Join the club!
Join us every Tuesday to watch anime, discuss our favorite manga, and maybe do a themed craft or two! (And sometimes there are snacks.)
This club is aimed at ages 13-18, and the teens decide what we watch from a list of screened episodes. We typically watch the first two episodes of a new anime each week. But if there is enough interest, we might watch more episodes of a show. If you would like to recommend an anime to watch, please do! The first two episodes will be screened and, if it passes reviews, added to the watch list.
Please note: most content we watch will be rated 14+ or younger (using the age ratings on Crunchyroll).
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East End Library’s First Birthday!
Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Location: East End Branch Library
Branch: East End Branch
You’re invited to celebrate East End Library’s first birthday! We’ll have tasty treats, fun crafts and more to celebrate being in the community for an entire year!
Want to bring a gift? How sweet! We’d love if you’d help us stock our Community Pantry.
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Homeschool Hour
Date: Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Presenter: Amanda Ball, Dana Bloch, Jordan Sandlin & Chelsea Simon
Location: Lower Commons, Makerspace- Benton, Storytime Room, Teen Area
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Join us as we learn through art, music, STEAM activities, problem solving, team building, and more. This will be a fun, supplemental, social event for ages 4 – 18. The age groups will be divided up as follows: 4-6, 7-9, 10-12, and 13-18.
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.
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.
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Storytime Fun!
Date: Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: Storytime Area East End
Branch: East End Branch
Storytime Fun is a storytime program intended for ages 3-5, though all are welcome. It will include stories, songs, some puppets and a craft or gross motor activity to prepare preschool friends for kindergarten. Storytime Fun will help with developing children’s social, emotional, cognitive, creative and physical skills and get them ready for school!
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Makerspace Open Hours
Date: Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Makerspace- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Drop by the Makerspace to explore our amazing array of materials and equipment. Work on a project or learn something new! During Open Hours, the Makerspace serves as an open workspace filled with various tools, materials, and equipment for independent creative work. 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.
Children ages 5-12 must have an adult supervising them at all times in the Makerspace. No children under 5 years are permitted in the Makerspace.
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LEt’s GO Build!
Date: Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Presenter: Chloe Bridges
Location: Meeting Room- Bryant
Branch: Mabel Boswell Memorial Library- Bryant
Take on a new LEGO® challenge each week! All ages welcome.
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CLOSED
Date: Thursday, April 3, 2025
Time: All Day Event
Location:
All branches of the Saline County Library and the Gann Museum are CLOSED. Even when the physical buildings are closed, you can still access our digital materials and services anytime, anywhere!
🎧Downloads and Streaming: https://www.salinecountylibrary.org/…/downloadables/
📚eBooks: https://adlc.overdrive.com/…
💻Online Resources: https://www.salinecountylibrary.org/elibrary/all-resources/
Subscribe to receive email announcements: https://www.salinecountylibrary.org/…/stay…/newsletter/
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Tiny Art Show: Submission Time!
Date: Saturday, April 5, 2025
Time: All Day Event
Location: Upper Commons
🎨Get Creative for the 4th Annual Tiny Art Show!🎨
It’s time to show off your artistic skills—no matter your age or experience! Pick up a free 3” x 3” canvas and entry form at any Saline County Library branch starting Saturday, April 5 (while supplies last, one per person). Or, bring your own tiny canvas (3” x 3” max). Use any art medium that sticks to a canvas!
Return your masterpiece by Saturday, April 26 to enter the contest. All entries will be displayed at the Benton branch from May 5–31, and winners (chosen by popular vote in four age groups) will be announced Monday, June 2—just in time for Summer Reading! 📖🏆
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Makerspace Open Hours
Date: Saturday, April 5, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Makerspace- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Drop by the Makerspace to explore our amazing array of materials and equipment. Work on a project or learn something new! During Open Hours, the Makerspace serves as an open workspace filled with various tools, materials, and equipment for independent creative work. 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.
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Saturday Storytime
Date: Saturday, April 5, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Presenter: Youth Services
Location: Storytime Room
Join us every Saturday at 10:30 for a storytime for catered towards ages 3-5! Come to library for a fun Saturday afternoon for a short storytime with a different Youth Service librarian every week. We’ll sing songs and read stories starting at 10:30 in the storytime room. We can’t wait to see you there!
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Puzzle Competition
Date: Saturday, April 5, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location: Meeting Room- Bryant
Branch: Mabel Boswell Memorial Library- Bryant
Come test your jigsaw puzzle solving skills! Each team of 4 will be given a 500 piece puzzle to solve. The first to complete the puzzle wins!
This event is for ages 13+ and registration is required. Space is limited. You can sign up as a team or individually and we will group people together.
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National Library Week!
Date: Sunday, April 6, 2025
Time: All Day Event
Location:
📚🥳It’s National Library Week from April 6th – 12th! 🥳📚
Every day from Monday – Saturday, there will be special evening events at various locations in Saline County. We can’t wait to see you and have some fun playing BINGO, Trivia, and more!
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Sensory Hour: Low-Key Storytime
Date: Monday, April 7, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: Storytime Room
A low-key storytime perfect for children with sensory needs, but everyone is welcome!
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Storyland: A Magical Adventure
Date: Monday, April 7, 2025
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 magical fairytale story time. We will have storytime with music and crafts. Come in your most magical outfits for a wonderful fun time!
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Monday Morning Book Club
Date: Monday, April 7, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Presenter: East End Staff
Location: Meeting Room- East End
Branch: East End Branch
Discuss a different book each month. Book themes will vary, so if one book isn’t for you, maybe the next one will be!
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Monday Afternoon Book Club
Date: Monday, April 7, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Location: Meeting Room- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Join us on the first Monday of every month to discuss the selected title of the month. Interested participants can pick up a copy of the next title to be discussed at the Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library’s circulation desk in Benton. No registration required and walk-ins welcome! If you like to read, and you like to talk about what you read, this book club is for you!
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Makerspace Open Hours
Date: Monday, April 7, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Makerspace- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Drop by the Makerspace to explore our amazing array of materials and equipment. Work on a project or learn something new! During Open Hours, the Makerspace serves as an open workspace filled with various tools, materials, and equipment for independent creative work. 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.
Children ages 5-12 must have an adult supervising them at all times in the Makerspace. No children under 5 years are permitted in the Makerspace.
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Monday Hangouts
Date: Monday, April 7, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Teen Area
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Hangout with other teens and our teen programmer, Ms. Chelsea, every Monday in the Teen Area. We’ll have board games, snacks, and good vibes.
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American Sign Language Class
Date: Monday, April 7, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Presenter: Amanda Ball
Location: Meeting Room- Bryant
Branch: Mabel Boswell Memorial Library- Bryant
Come join Ms.Amanda for an all ages welcome Beginner Sign Language class.
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Book Besties Book Club
Date: Monday, April 7, 2025
Time: 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Presenter: East End Staff
Location: Meeting Room- East End
Branch: East End Branch
Read a different Teen or New Adult book each month and find new Book Besties! Book genres will vary, so if this one isn’t for you, maybe the next one will be! Books are selected by participants, so book club kits might not be available.
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BINGO at Larry’s Pizza
Date: Monday, April 7, 2025
Time: 4:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Location: Larry’s Pizza- Bryant
📚🥳It’s National Library Week from April 6th – 12th! 🥳📚
Monday’s Event:
It’s time to mark your sheets and win some prizes! Join your SCL friends with some fun rounds of BINGO, complete with prizes from the library. Entry to the BINGO is free and open to all ages, however all patrons are responsible for their food and drink orders at the restaurant. We will play four rounds, each lasting one hour, with three games in each round. Participants are encouraged to play one round while they enjoy their food.
Where: Larry’s Pizza: 4500 Highway 5 N, Bryant, AR 72022
When: 4:30 PM – 8:00 PM
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ESOL – English for Speakers of Other Languages – Inglés para hablantes de otros idiomas
Date: Monday, April 7, 2025
Time: 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Presenter: Mely Lozano
Location: Meeting Room- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Do you want to improve your English communication skills? Join us each week for lessons and conversations with other English language learners in a comfortable, stress-free environment.
¿Quieres mejorar tus habilidades de comunicación en inglés? Te invitamos cada semana para recibir clases y conversar con otros estudiantes de inglés en un ambiente cómodo y sin estrés.
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Morning Makers
Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: Makerspace- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Start your day with creativity! Join us for an adults only, fun, easy craft session for all skill levels. All supplies are provided, and you’ll take home your creation!
Learn More
Toddler Storytime
Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Presenter: Wendy Christy
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.
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Toddler Storytime
Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Presenter: Wendy Christy
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.
Learn More
Canasta Club
Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location: Meeting Room- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Learn to play Canasta, a classic card game that mixes all the fun parts of Bridge and Rummy. Bring some friends along or just come and make some new ones. No prior gameplay experience needed.
Learn More
Makerspace Open Hours
Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Location: Makerspace- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Drop by the Makerspace to explore our amazing array of materials and equipment. Work on a project or learn something new! During Open Hours, the Makerspace serves as an open workspace filled with various tools, materials, and equipment for independent creative work. Bring a project you’re working on, or come with your imagination and create to your heart’s content. Take home what you make!
Check out all of the equipment available on our website!
Children ages 5-12 must have an adult supervising them at all times in the Makerspace. No children under 5 years are permitted in the Makerspace.
Learn More
Makerspace Open Hours
Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM – 5:30 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.
Learn More
D&D Campaign C – Table Closed
Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Location: Teen Area
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
This table is a continuation of our Fall 2024 campaign and is closed.
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Dungeon Academy — Registration Full
Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Presenter: Jordan Sandlin
Location: Lower Commons
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Registration Full. Check back next semester for more D&D opportunities.
Have you heard of Dungeons & Dragons? Have you wanted to learn how to play or join a group? Now’s your chance! Designed for kids that have played one session or less of D&D, Dungeon Academy will be the perfect opportunity to learn about the game and begin playing in a safe, consistent environment with other kids your age and your Tween Librarian and Game Master, Ms. Jordan. No preparation required!
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.
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.
Learn More
See the main events page for all of the Saline County events listings: www.mysaline.com/events
