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Ginger Beck is passionate about books. She enjoys checking out books from the public library, but also wants to own some books for her personal collection and for her students to use. In a recent column in this space, she highlighted the benefits of a quality used bookstore for someone who likes to read and acquire books while on a tight budget. She praised the Central Arkansas Library System's used bookstore, the Galleries & Bookstore at Library Square, and lamented its closure during our coming remodel of the Main Library.

Critics of the Central Arkansas Library System's decision to close the Galleries & Bookstore at Library Square later this year because of the upcoming renovations to the Main Library addressed library system board members during a meeting on Thursday.

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I have been a Central Arkansas Library System patron since I moved to Little Rock in 2008. Not too many years later, I learned of the treasure that was what used to be "Bookends" and was later renamed "The Bookstore at Library Square."

Changes are on the way for the Central Arkansas Library System's Library Square in Little Rock's River Market District that will affect book shoppers, art lovers and local artists.