Center for Arkansas History and Culture
Located in downtown Little Rock, the UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture is housed in the Bobby L. Roberts Library, the state’s largest facility dedicated to the study of Arkansas history and culture. Through its connection to the university, the archives benefit from the rigorous scholarship of our faculty, creating a valuable resource for students, researchers, stakeholders, and the general public.
The Bobby L. Roberts Library represents a partnership between the Central Arkansas Library System and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, through which the two institutions have made more than 10 million documents and photographs on Arkansas history available for public use.
Mission
The UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture collects, keeps safe, and makes available Arkansas history that connects people to each other and their shared experiences.
Project Contributors
UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture
UA Little Rock Department of Art
UA Little Rock Department of History
UA Little Rock Department of Music
UA Little Rock Office of Communications
Special Thanks To:
Colin Woodward
Archivist
Ph.D., C.A.
Nick Sosnoski
Physical Exhibit Designer
Sarah Fleming
Web Editor
Stan James
Education Content editor
This project is supported in part by a grant from the Arkansas Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Additional funding provided by the Arkansas Community Foundation is a nonprofit organization that fosters smart giving to improve communities. The Community Foundation offers tools to help Arkansans protect, grow and direct their charitable dollars as they learn more about community needs. By making grants and sharing knowledge, the Community Foundation supports charitable programs that work for Arkansas and partners to create new initiatives that address the gaps. Contributions to the Community Foundation, its funds and any of its 27 affiliates are fully tax deductible.
Through the Arkansas Studies research portal, you can search all holdings available in the library, regardless of whether they are maintained by the UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture or the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies.
Visit the portal at arstudies.com.
The Bobby L. Roberts Library is located in the Little Rocks River Market. The library combines the archival holdings of two institutions, UA Little Rock and the Central Arkansas Library System, under one roof.
To help make the researcher's experience efficient and fulfilling, the two institutions have created a single research portal that provides all of the information you need to plan your visit to the archive, including the ability to submit questions and requests.
Plan your visit here.