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...

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

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...

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...

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....