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...

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...

By Beth Roberts, MCLS PR and Customer Service Specialist During the COVID-19 crisis, so much of the news is focused on what we should not...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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