National Day of Listening: Butler Center, KUAR-FM, and StoryCorps

The Butler Center is partnering with KUAR-FM and StoryCorps, a national oral history project, to promote the National Day of Listening on Friday, November 27, 2009. The Butler Center will make the new Butler Center interview studio in the Arkansas Studies Institute available one day a week for four weeks for the public to come in and record oral history interviews. The interview studio will be available for 40-minute recording sessions, and CDs of interviews will be available immediately following the sessions.

The interview studio will be available to the public on the following dates and times:

Saturday, November 28 — 10 a.m. through 4 p.m.
Friday, December 4 — 9 a.m. through 5 p.m.
Friday, December 11 — 9 a.m. through 5 p.m.
Friday, December 18 — 9 a.m. through 5 p.m.


Contact Sara Thompson at sthompson@cals.org or 501-320-5718 to book an interview session or for more information.

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Korean War Project Recognized by OCLC

FORGOTTEN: The Arkansas Korean War Project has been selected as one of OCLC's featured digital collections for November.
See the full announcement here.

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Women's Educational Aid Society (Little Rock, Ark)

The Women’s Educational Aid Society was organized in Little Rock in 1887. According to the organization’s constitution, the “object of this Society is to assist worthy young unmarried women to obtain an education.”


Membership was limited to fifty, with a waiting list of three women and annual dues of $2 each. Women whose father, husband, or brother was "connected with the liquor traffic” were not eligible for membership.


From October to June, the Society met every other Wednesday for business and a program. Below are some examples of the types of programs at club meetings taken from the 1924-1925 Society yearbook. Click on the images to view a larger version.




This item can be found in MSS 00-22, Women's Educational Aid Society Materials. Box 1, File 4.

Contributed by Stephanie Bayless, Manuscripts Department

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