See all the upcoming library events below or visit the main events page at www.mysaline.com/events
Tween Summer Camp
Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Presenter: Jordan Sandlin
Location: Teen Area
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Summer Camp has come to Saline County Library! If you’ve never been able to attend a summer camp or sleep-away camp, this is the perfect opportunity for you. This is a registration ONLY camp for ages 9 – 12. We’ll have typical camp crafts, the occasional snack, and special guest counselors teaching our campers new skills.
Just like typical summer camp, be intentional when you sign up for Tween Summer Camp and respect the other campers’ and counselors’ time. We will expect you to be able to attend all six days of camp. Drop your child off at 9 AM when the library opens, and pick them up at noon on the dot for each day of camp. We will meet and start our days in the Makerspace every morning. If you have any questions please contact Ms. Jordan at [email protected]
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.
Food Allergies
We cannot guarantee that food served at this program has not come into contact with tree nuts, soy, or other allergens.
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.
Illustrator’s Workshop
Date: Tuesday, June 17, 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, June 17, 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.
Meet the Fire Department
Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Presenter: Amanda Ball
Location: Parking Lot- Bryant
Branch: Mabel Boswell Memorial Library- Bryant
Come see the Bryant Fire Department and their fire engine! We will have a fun learning about fire fighters and the tools they use.
Toddler Storytime
Date: Tuesday, June 17, 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, June 17, 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, June 17, 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, June 17, 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!
This week we’ll be creating a macramé wall hanging!
Ages 8-12
Makerspace Open Hours
Date: Tuesday, June 17, 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, June 17, 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, June 17, 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, June 17, 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!
Tween Summer Camp
Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Presenter: Jordan Sandlin
Location: Teen Area
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Summer Camp has come to Saline County Library! If you’ve never been able to attend a summer camp or sleep-away camp, this is the perfect opportunity for you. This is a registration ONLY camp for ages 9 – 12. We’ll have typical camp crafts, the occasional snack, and special guest counselors teaching our campers new skills.
Just like typical summer camp, be intentional when you sign up for Tween Summer Camp and respect the other campers’ and counselors’ time. We will expect you to be able to attend all six days of camp. Drop your child off at 9 AM when the library opens, and pick them up at noon on the dot for each day of camp. We will meet and start our days in the Makerspace every morning. If you have any questions please contact Ms. Jordan at [email protected]
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.
Food Allergies
We cannot guarantee that food served at this program has not come into contact with tree nuts, soy, or other allergens.
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.
Adult Art Studio
Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Location: Makerspace- Bryant
Branch: Mabel Boswell Memorial Library- Bryant
Start your morning with a guided creation to take home with you! All supplies will be provided.
Food Fundamentals: Meal Planning on a Budget
Date: Wednesday, June 18, 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: Meal Planning on a Budget.
Learn how to plan a healthy meal on a budget for one or an entire family. Create a food budget. Demonstrate meal planning ofr your budget.
Registration Required – All supplies provided – No prior experience needed.
Little Rock Zoo Animal Meet and Greet
Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: Lower Commons
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Join us for a wild time with the Little Rock Zoo!
Lake Catherine
Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: East End Branch Library, Storytime Area East End
Branch: East End Branch
Our friends from Lake Catherine State Park will be at our East End branch to talk all about animal furs!
Silent Book Club
Date: Wednesday, June 18, 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, June 18, 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.
Instrument Petting Zoo with the Saline County Symphony
Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Meeting Room- Bryant
Branch: Mabel Boswell Memorial Library- Bryant
Our friends from the Saline County Symphony will be at our Bryant branch to teach us all about music and instruments!
Tween Summer Camp
Date: Thursday, June 19, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Presenter: Jordan Sandlin
Location: Teen Area
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Summer Camp has come to Saline County Library! If you’ve never been able to attend a summer camp or sleep-away camp, this is the perfect opportunity for you. This is a registration ONLY camp for ages 9 – 12. We’ll have typical camp crafts, the occasional snack, and special guest counselors teaching our campers new skills.
Just like typical summer camp, be intentional when you sign up for Tween Summer Camp and respect the other campers’ and counselors’ time. We will expect you to be able to attend all six days of camp. Drop your child off at 9 AM when the library opens, and pick them up at noon on the dot for each day of camp. We will meet and start our days in the Makerspace every morning. If you have any questions please contact Ms. Jordan at [email protected]
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.
Food Allergies
We cannot guarantee that food served at this program has not come into contact with tree nuts, soy, or other allergens.
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.
Tech Thursday
Date: Thursday, June 19, 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, June 19, 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, June 19, 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, June 19, 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, June 19, 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, June 19, 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, June 19, 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, June 19, 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 the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky and create our own abstract masterpiece inspired by his use of music and color in his art.
Out of the Box Art
Date: Thursday, June 19, 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, June 19, 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, June 19, 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.
The Pencil Pack
Date: Thursday, June 19, 2025
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Presenter: Jordan Sandlin
Location: Makerspace- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Kids ages 9-12 can learn about journalism and help create content for our very own tween library newspaper.
Interested in journalism, writing, drawing, or photography? Come join the Pencil Pack! Add your spark to our monthly library newspaper at this journalism club for beginners. We’ll learn the basics of writing a good article and create content to be published in our monthly library newspaper just for kids.
Craft Corner
Date: Thursday, June 19, 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’ll be making bracelets with intention!
Adventures in Making
Date: Thursday, June 19, 2025
Time: 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Location: Makerspace- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library – Benton
Music and Movement
Date: Friday, June 20, 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.
Learn MoreSee the main events page for all of the Saline County events listings: www.mysaline.com/events
