On June 19th, 1865, two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation and two months after...

Last week the Blytheville Public Library was honored to receive the annual Pride in Property award from the Greater Blytheville Area...

The Mississippi County Library System (MCLS) is excited to celebrate National Library Week! We encourage you to come visit one of our...

MCLS RECEIVES GRANT FOR PUBLIC HEALTH The Mississippi County Library System (MCLS) is pleased to announce that it has been selected as a...

Almost exactly a year ago, I was at the Public Library Association’s biannual conference in Nashville, Tennessee. The small delegation...

In a 1976 proclamation, President Gerald R. Ford urged Americans to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected...

Shelf Talk: Library Announces Grant for Mental Health Awareness BLYTHEVILLE LIBRARY RECEIVES NATIONAL GRANT FOR SMALL AND RURAL LIBRARIES...

The Mississippi County Library System (MCLS) is delighted to announce Randy Newman as MCLS Employee of the Quarter for 4th Quarter 2020....

Have you visited the Blytheville library lately? The last two years have been a time of transformation: we now have a new roof, new...

December in Mississippi County. We may not get snow, but the holiday season is in the air: lights and decorations adorn our homes and...

It’s the Holiday Season! Time to be thankful for friends and family, to count our blessings, and to celebrate the end of a long year....

Welcome to Fall! Cooler weather, warmer colors, shorter days, and longer sleeves are currently in style. Now is the time to enjoy all...

She was 5’1”. Her opponent was 6’3”. She was not daunted by his large frame nor his stinging rhetoric. As he continued to talk over her,...

Welcome back to school! Even if you don’t have a student in your life, you can’t deny the energy that a new school year brings. The...

Whew! What a summer at the Mississippi County Library System (MCLS)! We kept ourselves busy with curbside services, book sales, and a...

The important things in life are worth fighting for. Raising a child, building a marriage, running a business, caring for an aging...

By Lowell Walters, MCLS Director This week I decided to give Beth Roberts, our Public Relations Specialist, a break and offer readers an...

It may be only mid-July, but we are already thinking about school. Teachers and administrators across the county are working hard to...

About 400 years ago, poet John Donne was deathly ill. It was during this sickness that he penned the famous Meditation 17, “No Man is an...

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...