Mississippi Library Commission Blog

The Mississippi Library Commission is committed – through leadership, advocacy, and service – to strengthening and enhancing libraries and library services for all Mississippians.

Monday, September 30, 2013

Seeing Is Reading

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Remember learning how to read? Cast your memory back to first grade: sounding out letters and forming them into words--C+A+T = CAT. It wa...

Monday, September 23, 2013

And The Winner Is...

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I've been pawing through a book I found hidden in the stacks a few days ago. The title makes it sound like the most lascivious and licen...

Friday, September 20, 2013

Greenville, MS - On The Cutting Edge

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Back in the late 1880s, Greenville, MS had quite the impressive school system. Mr. Eli E. Bass, the School Superintendent for Greenville ...

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Weather Whether It's Blue Skies Or Grey

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Last week while I was helping a patron with some genealogy research, I ran across a woman named Tornado. Was it a fluke? Ah, no. It turns ...

Monday, August 26, 2013

The Best Overdue Books Ever

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Lithuania I stumbled across a story last week which I've been waiting to share with you. An unlikely librarian in Lithuania is a new...

Friday, August 23, 2013

Happy Friday!

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Here's a fun comic we found in The Clarion-Ledger on microfilm from June 7th, 1954! "You'll have to check that slab out -- ...

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Cassagne To Head Mississippi Library Commission

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The Mississippi Library Commission Board of Commissioners (MLC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Susan Young Swindell Cassagne, of ...

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