We’ve rushed through the first months of the year at breakneck speed and now 2024’s last days are dwindling away. With shorter, cooler days ahead and the holidays around the corner, it’s the perfect time to focus on the important things in life, like the people we love and the things that bring us joy. […]

What do you call a group of librarians? While there’s no official name, a large congress of librarians descended on the town of Natchez last week for the annual Mississippi Library Association (MLA) conference. MLA was officially organized 115 years ago on October 29, 1909 and is even older than the Mississippi Library Commission (MLC). (FYI: MLC was created […]

When’s the last time you visited a public library? Libraries across Mississippi have oodles and oodles of fantastically fun resources for you, the patron, to use. There are 53 library systems with 234 libraries in Mississippi ready and waiting to serve you and, as September is Library Card Sign-up Month, now is the perfect time […]