Last week, some exciting news came our way: The William F. Laman Public Library System of North Little Rock became the first library system in Arkansas to win a website award.

We received the Prism Award for the outstanding use of a website as part of a public relations program from the Public Relations Society of America - Arkansas Chapter. Organizations and businesses from all across the state submitted entries into the contest. An out-of-state committee judged the entries and selected the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce and the William F. Laman Public Library System as finalists in the website category, and subsequently named Laman Library the winner.

For one week every year, libraries across the country celebrate a principle we hold very dear: intellectual freedom.

Libraries constantly face pressure from groups and individuals to restrict or remove materials from their collections. Challenged materials range from "Captain Underpants" to "Webster's Dictionary."

Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century.

The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his "World's Fair Hotel" just west of the fairground -- a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium.

An intensely articulate and moving memoir of self-discovery, "Eat, Pray, Love" is about what can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment and stop trying to live in imitation of society's ideals. It is certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the unrelenting need for change.