By Beth Roberts, MCLS PR and Customer Service Specialist On Sunday afternoons, my family rests. Monday through Saturday is a never-ending...

By Beth Roberts, MCLS PR and Customer Service Specialist “The very concept of public depends upon public libraries.” - Stacy Abrams Last...

By Beth Roberts, MCLS PR and Customer Service Specialist In a spare drawer at home, under the knickknacks and mementos that build up in...

To open this issue of the MCLS newsletter I would like to compliment our personnel for making 2019 a great success. Looking back over the...

To Mississippi County, Wayne Breckenridge is many things: a full-time Blytheville fireman, a community volunteer, a gamer, a helping...

Congratulations to Linda Dawson, manager of the Wilson Branch, on being named the first MCLS Employee of the Quarter! In her branch,...

It all started with a backyard experiment. Scott Follett loved to devise science projects with his son, Eddie, and help him develop a...

As many will remember, on February 24, 2018 a tornado severely damaged the Keiser Public Library. On January 22, 2019, the renovated...

As Michael Bennett drives to his NUCOR office each morning, he sees a sign that heralds the company’s mission to be “stewards of the...

The MCLS has a number of initiatives underway at this time. A key project is a conversion to a new catalog and circulation system, which...

This quarter I would like to make readers aware of a pending expansion of the MCLS online ebook and audiobook collection. Over the past...

Born on December 30th, Mary Atterberry often jokes that her middle name should have been “Christmas.” The name would have been fitting,...

Shortly after the printing of our last newsletter, the Keiser Public Library was struck by a tornado. Though the building was heavily...

Visitors to the Wilson Library might mistake Mary Tom Vermillion for a librarian. Their guess wouldn’t be far off. Mary Tom has spent her...

I hope that you had a meaningful holiday season and that you have been able to stay warm during the first half of this winter which...

Ashley Baker grew up in the library. Her grandparents lived only a few blocks away from the Osceola Branch, so she could walk to the...

As I approach my first holiday season in northeastern Arkansas, I would like to thank the communities of Mississippi County for making my...

When she moved to Osceola, AR in 1974, Mrs. Pat Vaughn knew she needed to visit the library. An avid reader for most of her life, Mrs....