See all the upcoming library events below or visit the main events page at www.mysaline.com/events
Makerspace Open Hours
Date: Monday, July 7, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 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!
For a full list of Makerspace equipment and rules, visit our Makerspace page on our website.
Makerspace Open Hours
Date: Monday, July 7, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM
Location: Makerspace- Bryant
Branch: Mabel Boswell Memorial Library- Bryant
Enjoy extended all-day open hours every Monday to celebrate Summer Reading!
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.
Family Crafting
Date: Monday, July 7, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: Storytime Room
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Join us for a weekly craft activity for the whole family, and make a mess here instead of at home!
Once Upon a Dream Storytime
Date: Monday, July 7, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: Meeting Room- Bryant
Branch: Mabel Boswell Memorial Library- Bryant
Dress up as princesses, dragons, and other fairytale creatures for our magical storytime! We will be singing, crafting, and reading magical books.
Chair Yoga
Date: Monday, July 7, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Presenter: Susan Buntin
Location: Meeting Room- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Kick off your week with a Mindful Monday Chair Yoga session. Come as you are and enjoy a low-impact, low-stress, and accessible workout. No equipment needed. No prior experience needed.
Monday Morning Book Club
Date: Monday, July 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!
Monday Afternoon Book Club
Date: Monday, July 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!
HQ Detectives
Date: Monday, July 7, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Presenter: Amanda Ball
Location: Meeting Room- Bryant
Branch: Mabel Boswell Memorial Library- Bryant
Calling all explorers! Join our new Who What Where book club. We’ll explore the world of a new Who HQ book, such as What Do We Know About Alien Abduction?, What is Nintendo?, and Who Was Blackbird?. We’ll learn about the topic and do a themed craft!
Ages 7-9
Monday Hangouts – Summer Edition
Date: Monday, July 7, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Teen Area
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Bored at home during summer vacation? Want to make a new friend or play a game with your favorite library friends? Monday Hangouts are the solution you’ve been looking for! Our teen librarian, Ms. Chelsea, will be in the Teen Area with board games, video games, and some snacks for two hours every Monday until school starts back!
Acoustic Music Jam
Date: Monday, July 7, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Location: East End Branch Library
Branch: East End Branch
An Acoustic Music Jam is happening at the East End Library every Monday afternoon in the summer! All skill levels and ages are welcome as we play across genres, from folk and Americana to blues, rock, bluegrass and more. We’ll pull up some chairs, sit in a circle and take turns leading tunes. Share your favorite song, learn something new, and have fun making music and new friends. If you want to help someone out on their tune, go for it! If you’re not a musician and just want to listen, you can do that, too! Let’s make some music at the library!
CANCELLED Book Besties Book Club
Date: Monday, July 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.
CANCELLED: ESOL – English for Speakers of Other Languages – Inglés para hablantes de otros idiomas
Date: Monday, July 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.
Food Fundamentals: Air Fryer Basics – Protein
Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Presenter: UAEX
Location: Meeting Room- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
The University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service, in coordination with Saline County Library, presents: Food Fundamentals: Air Fryer Basics – Protein edition.
You will: Advance cooking skills. Expand knowledge and abilities in the kitchen and about proteins. Practice using an air fryer. Taste test final products.
Registration Required – All supplies provided – No prior experience needed.
Illustrator’s Workshop
Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Presenter: Laura Martin
Location: Makerspace- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Did you know that Saline County Library has their very own in-house comic expert? Join our Marketing Coordinator, Laura Martin, to pick her brain and learn all her trade secrets. Laura’s worked on graphic novels such as The Curie Society, Moonbound, and Took. Over the summer Laura will guide you on your journey to create a comic of your own!
Toddler Storytime
Date: Tuesday, July 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.
Toddler Storytime
Date: Tuesday, July 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.
Library Card Shufflers
Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location: Upper Commons
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Come play cards with us. We play all kinds of card games like Canasta, Hand and Foot, Hearts, Spades, Rummy, and more. Bring some friends along or just come and make new ones. No prior gameplay experience needed – we are always happy to teach a new player.
Cooking Club: First Hour
Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Presenter: Jordan Sandlin
Location: Meeting Room- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Sample a new color every week in our Color You World Cooking Club! We’ll focus on a different color of the rainbow each session to broaden our palettes and learn to cook new things. This program is registration only for ages 9 -12. We will be making a different recipe every week so if there are allergy concerns, please contact Ms. Jordan at [email protected].
Food Allergies
We cannot guarantee that food served at this program has not come into contact with tree nuts, soy, or other allergens.
Tween Crafters Club
Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location: Meeting Room- Bryant
Branch: Mabel Boswell Memorial Library- Bryant
Calling all crafters! Join us every week for a new craft: rock painting, macramé, DIY fake plants, sand art, and more!
Today we’ll be creating button art!
Makerspace Open Hours
Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2025
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!
For a full list of Makerspace equipment and rules, visit our Makerspace page on our website.
Makerspace Open Hours
Date: Tuesday, July 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.
Cooking Club: Second Hour
Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Time: 3:05 PM – 4:00 PM
Presenter: Jordan Sandlin
Location: Meeting Room- Benton
Sample a new color every week in our Color You World Cooking Club! We’ll go focus on a different color of the rainbow each session to broaden our palettes and learn to cook new things. This program is registration only for ages 9 -12. We will be making a different recipe every week so if there are allergy concerns, please contact Ms. Jordan at [email protected].
Food Allergies
We cannot guarantee that food served at this program has not come into contact with tree nuts, soy, or other allergens.
Teenage Kindergarten: Summer Vacation
Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Time: 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Location: Meeting Room- East End
Branch: East End Branch
Pretend you’re back in kindergarten and enjoy storytime, crafts, show and tell and other fun, silly activities with your favorite library staff! We’ll do something different each week and have plenty of time set aside for getting to know new friends, planning new projects, creating new events and more!
Trivia
Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Location: US Pizza- Bryant
Branch: Non-Library Location (Explained in description)
All ages are welcome to our head to head trivia battle! Think you’ve got the smarts to take the trophy? Winners will take home prizes from the library! Meet up at U.S Pizza, grab a slice or two, and get ready for a fun night!
Theme: Disney!
Participants are responsible for ordering and purchasing their own food and drinks.
Where: US Pizza in Bryant
SCL Puppeteers
Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: Lower Commons
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Join our favorite puppeteers as they perform a silly story at our Benton location!
The Magic of Scott Davis
Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: East End Branch Library
Branch: East End Branch
Join us at our East End branch for a performance by magician and comedian Scott Davis
Silent Book Club
Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Location: Teen Area
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Want to take advantage of Summer Vacation and the relative quiet of the library to dwindle down your never-ending TBR List? Silent Book Club is a low-key and no pressure book club. During the first hour, we’ll all gather in the Teen Area and read whatever book we want – that means you can grab a book off the shelf, read on your e-reader or phone, or pick up a copy of whatever book Ms. Chelsea is reading that day. Then in the last 30-minutes we’ll all talk about the books we were reading, no useless book club questions here, just some people getting together to read and talk books!
Makerspace Open Hours
Date: Wednesday, July 9, 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.
möm&pöp [CANCELED]
Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Meeting Room- Bryant
Branch: Mabel Boswell Memorial Library- Bryant
Join us at our Bryant branch to sing and dance with möm&pöp!
Tech Thursday
Date: Thursday, July 10, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location:
Branch: Mabel Boswell Memorial Library- Bryant
Are you in need of help of with your technology? Drop in or set up a personal 30 minute appointment for help with anything involving tech: printing, scanning, downloading eBooks, using your tablet, formatting documents, etc! Appointments available from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Call 501-847-2166 or email [email protected] for questions or to set up an appointment!
Tummy Time Tots
Date: Thursday, July 10, 2025
Time: 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Location: Storytime Room
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
This is a lapsit program for infants. Join us for songs, books and bonding!
Twinkle Tots
Date: Thursday, July 10, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Presenter: Amanda Ball
Location: Meeting Room- Bryant
Branch: Mabel Boswell Memorial Library- Bryant
Come dressed in your magical fairytale costumes! This storytime is for children needing a smaller storytime setting.
Twinkle Tots
Date: Thursday, July 10, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Presenter: Amanda Ball
Location: Meeting Room- Bryant
Branch: Mabel Boswell Memorial Library- Bryant
Come dressed in your magical fairytale costumes! This storytime is for children needing a smaller storytime setting.
Oh Baby! Storytime
Date: Thursday, July 10, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: Storytime Area East End
Branch: East End Branch
Oh Baby! Storytime is meant for our littlest library friends. It will include stories, songs, bouncing rhymes, finger plays, shakers and scarves, plus free play time where parents and caregivers can chat and make new friends outside of the house while their little ones play in a safe and welcoming environment.
Summer Storytime
Date: Thursday, July 10, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: Storytime Room
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Come get your wiggles out with us at the library with fun songs and silly stories!
D&D.I.Y: First Hour
Date: Thursday, July 10, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Presenter: Jordan Sandlin & Chelsea Simon
Location: Makerspace- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Thanks to high demand, a second hour has now been added! Register here: https://salinecountylibrary.libcal.com/event/14615804
Have a love of crafting and D&D? So do Ms. Chelsea and Ms. Jordan! Each week we will meet to create a different D&D inspired craft. Gelatinous cube soap, mini-figure painting, and potion bottles are just a few of the adventures that we will conquer together! Leave your dice at home, but be sure to bring your imagination!
Registration is required. Due to the complexity of some of our crafts, all registrants must be 10 – 18 years old.
The Art Garage
Date: Thursday, July 10, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location: Meeting Room- Bryant
Branch: Mabel Boswell Memorial Library- Bryant
Love art history? Or want to try your hand at remaking some famous artwork? Join us each week to learn about a new artist and recreate one of their masterpieces!
This week, we’ll learn about Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci.
Out of the Box Art
Date: Thursday, July 10, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location: Storytime Room
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Art is more than just crayons and paint! Join Ms Dana for a summer of arts and crafts, ages 6-8
Makerspace Open Hours
Date: Thursday, July 10, 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.
D&D.I.Y: Second Hour
Date: Thursday, July 10, 2025
Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Presenter: Jordan Sandlin & Chelsea Simon
Location: Makerspace- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Have a love of crafting and D&D? So do Ms. Chelsea and Ms. Jordan! Each week we will meet to create a different D&D inspired craft. Gelatinous cube soap, mini-figure painting, and potion bottles are just a few of the adventures that we will conquer together! Leave your dice at home, but be sure to bring your imagination!
Registration is required. Due to the complexity of some of our crafts, all registrants must be 10 – 18 years old.
Craft Corner
Date: Thursday, July 10, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Presenter: East End Staff
Location:
Branch: East End Branch
Teens and adults, make crafts with your favorite library staff! We’ll make something different every week!
This week, we’re traveling back in time and making shrinky dinks!
Adventures in Making
Date: Thursday, July 10, 2025
Time: 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Location: Makerspace- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Music and Movement
Date: Friday, July 11, 2025
Time: 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Presenter: Amanda Ball
Location: Meeting Room- Bryant
Branch: Mabel Boswell Memorial Library- Bryant
Come dressed in your magical fairytale costumes! This storytime is for children needing a smaller storytime setting.
Music and Movement
Date: Friday, July 11, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Presenter: Amanda Ball
Location: Meeting Room- Bryant
Branch: Mabel Boswell Memorial Library- Bryant
Music! Instruments! And fun crafts! Stop by on Friday mornings for plenty of fun! Ages 1-4
Color, Craft, Create
Date: Friday, July 11, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: East End Branch Library
Branch: East End Branch
Drop in for simple, unguided arts and crafts activities, perfect for kids of all ages.
Learn MoreSee the main events page for all of the Saline County events listings: www.mysaline.com/events
