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

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

Fake news. It’s a constant refrain everywhere we turn, shouted by politicians, social media, and news channels. It’s a phrase we’ve begun...

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...

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

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...

Shelf Talk is usually written by the MCLS PR and Customer Service Specialist, Beth Roberts. But this time your MCLS director, Lowell...

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...

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

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...

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....