[3][4][5] C. W. L. (Charles Webster Leverton) Armour, a trustee of Fort Smith Public Library, was the organization's first president.

[6][7] Early legislative efforts led to approval of a plan allowing some towns to impose taxes for library development.

[5] After the organization had a financial setback in 1933 when their bank failed, Arkansas Libraries stopped being published until 1944.

In 2021 the winners were: Marla Cantrell for Early Morning in the Land of Dreams (Adult Fiction); David Hill for The Vapors : A Southern Family , the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs (Adult Non-Fiction), and Darcy Pattison and Eileen Hutcheson for A Little Bit of Dinosaur (Juvenile).

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