The Bobby L. Roberts Library represents a partnership between the\u00a0Central Arkansas Library System<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0University of Arkansas at Little Rock<\/a>, through which the two institutions have made more than 10 million documents and photographs on Arkansas history available for public use.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n “As Much as the Water: How Steamboats Shaped Arkansas” began as a discussion between the UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture<\/a>\u00a0(CAHC) and\u00a0The Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas<\/a> (ASC). The two organizations wanted to create a small archival exhibit featuring materials used in a 1983 exhibition of Frederick T. Anderson’s art. As planning progressed, we began to see connections to other areas of study in the university, and as we talked with other scholars at UA Little Rock, it was clear that steamboats held a mythos for people that surpassed what could be presented in a small exhibit.<\/p>\n The exhibit presented here offers a broad range of content and perspectives from a variety of disciplines. The scholars whose work is featured here offer critical perspectives on the impact steamboats had on Arkansas and its culture. That impact shaped the state in indelible ways, truly as much as the rivers these boats traversed did.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture<\/p>\n The Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas<\/p>\n Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum<\/p>\n Sequoyah National Research Center at UA Little Rock<\/p>\n UA Little Rock Department of Art<\/p>\n UA Little Rock Department of History<\/p>\n UA Little Rock Department of Music<\/p>\n UA Little Rock Office of Communications<\/p>\n UA Little Rock Ottenheimer Library<\/p>\n The Bobby L. Roberts Library combines the archival holdings of two institutions, UA Little Rock and the Central Arkansas Library System, under one roof.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Visit the portal at\u00a0arstudies.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t Through the research portal, you can search all holdings available in the Bobby L. Roberts 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.<\/p>\n\n\t\tMission\n\t<\/h3>\n\t
\n\t\tAbout this Project\n\t<\/h2>\n\t
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\n\t\tLead Partners\n\t<\/h4>\n\t
\n\t\tContributing Partners\n\t<\/h4>\n\t
\n\t\tSpecial Thanks\n\t<\/h4>\n\tKaye Lundgren<\/strong>
\nArchival Assistant
\n<\/em>Center for Arkansas History and Culture\nKimberly Kaczenski<\/strong>
\nAssistant Director<\/em>
\nCenter for Arkansas History and Culture\nLaura Amrhein<\/strong>
\nSocial Historian<\/em>
\nLittle Rock, Arkansas\nDeborah Baldwin<\/strong>
\nAssociate Provost, Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences\u00a0<\/em>
\nUniversity of Arkansas at Little Rock\nJessica Erwin
\n<\/strong>Graduate Assistant
\n<\/i>Center for Arkansas History and Culture\nChad Garrett<\/strong>
\nDirector of Digital Projects and Initiatives<\/em>
\nCenter for Arkansas History and Culture\nAllison Hiblong<\/strong>
\nGraduate Assistant<\/i>\nLeslie C. “Skip” Stewart-Abernathy<\/strong>
\nArcheologist for Arkansas Archeological\u00a0Survey<\/em>
\nStationed at Winthrop Rockefeller Institute on Petit Jean Mountain\nCourtney Taylor<\/strong>
\nArts and Sciences Center for Southeast Arkansas\n\tStanley James
\n<\/strong>Teacher<\/em>
\neSTEM Public Charter School\nShannon Lausch
\n<\/b>Archivist\u00a0<\/em>
\n\nCarol Macheak
\n<\/strong>Librarian<\/em>
\nUniversity of Arkansas at Little Rock\nBrandie Mikesell
\n<\/strong>Archivist\u00a0<\/em>
\n\nCarl H. Moneyhon
\n<\/strong>Professor of History<\/em>
\nUniversity of Arkansas at Little Rock\nTom Richeson<\/strong>
\nUA Little Rock Music Department
\n\nKaren Russ
\n<\/strong>Librarian<\/em>
\nUniversity of Arkansas at Little Rock
\n\nLindsay Scott<\/strong>
\nMaritime Archeologist<\/em>
\n\nLenore Shouts<\/strong>
\nArts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas\n\t
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