POPE COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM

All Ages are invited to participate! Sign up here:

2025 Summer Reading Program Landing Page

(Stop by any library if you prefer a paper registration form.)

5/30/2025, 4:00 pm

DOVER : SRP KICKOFF WITH TASIA C. TAYLOR

Bring the familiy to pick up reading logs and meet local author, Tasia C. Taylor, who will be here to read her newest book Ice Cream Disaster and share an activity. Afterwards, make your very own Ice Cream Sundae!

6/3/2025, 10:00 am

HECTOR: SRP KICKOFF WITH SMOKEY BEAR

Join us for our first SRP storytime with special guest Smokey Bear from the U.S. Forest Service and pick up your reading logs!

6/4/2025, 2:00 pm

ATKINS: SRP KICKOFF--CRAFTING EXTRAVAGANZA

Color our World Summer Reading Program begins with a crafting extravaganza and a colorful movie! All ages are encouraged to participate and take home a reading log.

6/7/2025, 10:00 am

RUSSELLVILLE: RUSSELLVILLE ALL AGES SRP KICKOFF

Join us for games and crafts for the kids, and Junk Journals and Origami for teens and adults. We have something for everyone, so we hope you'll pick up your reading log and help us Color Our World!

COLOR YOUR WORLD WITH MOVIES AT THE LIBRARY

SUMMER CINEMA SERIES

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RUSSELLVILLE

MOVIE

TIME

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ATKINS

MOVIE TIME WITH POPCORN

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DOVER

HECTOR

FEST

MOVIE

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HECTOR

POPE COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM, in partnership with DOGEAR BOOKS, presents

MO WILLEMS' ZOOM SQUIRREL

6/9/2025, 10:00 am

DOVER: Storytime with Zoom Squirrel

6/9/2025, 1:00 pm

ATKINS: Storytime with Zoom Squirrel

6/10/2025, 10:00 am

HECTOR: Storytime with Zoom Squirrel

6/11/2025, 10:00 am

RUSSELLVILLE: Storytime with Zoom Squirrel

TEENS and ADULTS, our Summer Reading Program is for you, too! Sign up for your own reading log and earn a chance at a Grand Prize (Russellville Teen and YA programs will also have door prize drawings at their SRP events.)

POPE COUNTY LIBRARY GENEALOGY DEPARTMENT PRESENTS:

DR. GAYLE SEYMOUR

Art Behind Barbed Wire: Japanese American Internment Art in Arkansas

6/5/2025, 5:30 pm

RUSSELL P. BAKER

In Search of the Blue and the Grey -

Looking for Civil War Ancestors

6/19/2025, 5:30 pm

For more info, see our Genealogy Department Landing Page

ARKANSAS GAME AND FISH WORKSHOP

6/14--BOATER EDUCATION

Arkansas Game and Fish will host a Boater Education class for ages 12 & up from 9am until 3pm. The traditional boating education class is a 6-hour instructor led classroom course with hands-on demonstrations. The class will end with a test to pass the course. Register online at