Makerspace Open Hours- Benton
Date: Monday, July 28, 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.
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Makerspace Open Hours
Date: Monday, July 28, 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.
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Family Crafting
Date: Monday, July 28, 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!
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Once Upon a Dream Storytime
Date: Monday, July 28, 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.
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Chair Yoga
Date: Monday, July 28, 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.
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HQ Detectives
Date: Monday, July 28, 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
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Monday Hangouts - Summer Edition
Date: Monday, July 28, 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!
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Acoustic Music Jam
Date: Monday, July 28, 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!
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ESOL - English for Speakers of Other Languages - Inglés para hablantes de otros idiomas
Date: Monday, July 28, 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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Illustrator's Workshop
Date: Tuesday, July 29, 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!
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Toddler Storytime
Date: Tuesday, July 29, 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, July 29, 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 29, 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.
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Tween Crafters Club
Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Meeting Room- Bryant
Branch: Mabel Boswell Memorial Library- Bryant
It's our last meeting of the crafters for the summer and we're celebrating with a craft extravaganza!
Did you miss a craft you really wanted to make? Or want to make another of your favorite craft? Or maybe you want to make something completely new!
We'll have lots of different options and materials. Come by and see what you can make!
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Makerspace Open Hours- Benton
Date: Tuesday, July 29, 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.
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Makerspace Open Hours
Date: Tuesday, July 29, 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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Teenage Kindergarten: Summer Vacation
Date: Tuesday, July 29, 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!
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Sheridan Flashback Orchestra
Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Time: 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: East End Branch Library
Branch: East End Branch
Enjoy a jazz concert by local musical group Sheridan Flashback Orchestra!
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Big Poppa Bubble
Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Parking Lot- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library - Benton
POP over to experience Arkansas' premier soap bubble artist!
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Instrument Petting Zoo with the Saline County Symphony
Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: East End Branch Library
Branch: East End Branch
Our friends from the Saline County Symphony will be at our East End branch to teach us about music and instruments!
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Silent Book Club
Date: Wednesday, July 30, 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!
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Makerspace Open Hours- Benton
Date: Wednesday, July 30, 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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Big Poppa Bubble
Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Meeting Room- Bryant
Branch: Mabel Boswell Memorial Library- Bryant
POP over to experience Arkansas' premier soap bubble artist!
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Tech Thursday
Date: Thursday, July 31, 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 chloeb@salinecountylibrary.org for questions or to set up an appointment!
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Tummy Time Tots
Date: Thursday, July 31, 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!
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Twinkle Tots
Date: Thursday, July 31, 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.
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Twinkle Tots
Date: Thursday, July 31, 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.
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Oh Baby! Storytime
Date: Thursday, July 31, 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.
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Summer Storytime
Date: Thursday, July 31, 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!
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D&D.I.Y: First Hour
Date: Thursday, July 31, 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.
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The Art Garage
Date: Thursday, July 31, 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 recreate a piece of abstract art using Jackson Pollock's "drip technique."
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Out of the Box Art
Date: Thursday, July 31, 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
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Makerspace Open Hours
Date: Thursday, July 31, 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.I.Y: Second Hour
Date: Thursday, July 31, 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.
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Craft Corner
Date: Thursday, July 31, 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 bedazzling books!
YOU MUST BRING YOUR OWN BOOK FOR THIS PROGRAM!
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Back to School Bingo and Books
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2025
Time: 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Presenter: Jordan Sandlin
Location: Lower Commons
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library - Benton
Bingo! Books! Backpacks!
If you are or you have children starting school in August swing by the Benton Library for Back to School Bingo and Books. In the Lower Commons at the bottom of the stairs we'll host rounds of bingo with a chance to win books or school supplies! There will be a wide range of school supplies for all ages up for giveaway, so all ages are welcome.
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Adventures in Making
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2025
Time: 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Location: Makerspace- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library - Benton
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Color, Craft, Create
Date: Friday, August 1, 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.
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Tai Chi
Date: Friday, August 1, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Presenter: Jo Tabor
Location: Meeting Room- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library - Benton
Connect your mind, body, and breath in this low-impact, meditative movement session. All levels welcome. No equipment needed.
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Pilates
Date: Friday, August 1, 2025
Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Location: Meeting Room- Benton
Branch: Bob Herzfeld Memorial Library - Benton
Join us for a mat-based Pilates class with a Yoga twist. All levels are welcome. Bring your own yoga mat if desired, but all equipment will be available.
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Makerspace Open Hours
Date: Saturday, August 2, 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 craft supplies 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, August 2, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Presenter: Youth Services
Location: Storytime Room
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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Makerspace Open Hours
Date: Monday, August 4, 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.
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Chair Yoga
Date: Monday, August 4, 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.
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Monday Morning Book Club
Date: Monday, August 4, 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 on the first Monday of each month! This month is a BYOB adventure. Bring Your Own Book and convince everyone else to read it!
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