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

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

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

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

The Mississippi County Library System (MCLS), Osceola Branch, has been selected as one of 20 U.S. libraries for a national grant! The...

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....

Great things are happening at the Mississippi County Library System (MCLS)! We’re gearing up for some fun activities this fall and...

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...

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...

Imagine your story. Remember your favorite fairy tale or folktale: did you ever want to be one of those characters? Did you ever wish you...

Do you remember Summer Reading at the Library? I sure do. As a kid, nothing focused my competitive urges quite like Summer Reading. I was...

Two months. Life has changed in the last two months. Two months of staying home, wearing masks, disinfecting surfaces, washing hands,...

When I was a kid, the big new thing was Virtual Reality. In the ‘90s, personal computers were just becoming common place, internet (for...