by mlcsupport | Apr 29, 2024 | Stacks and Facts
Happy Arab-American Heritage Month! Did you know that members of the Arab ethnic group began immigrating to Mississippi in the 1870s? These people were mainly Christians from Lebanon and Syria and settled in Jackson, Meridian, railroad towns, and along the Mississippi...
by mlcsupport | Apr 15, 2024 | Stacks and Facts
April is National Poetry Month, which makes it an ideal time to go to your bookshelves and pick out your favorite verse, sonnet, ballad, haiku, or limerick. Predating modern history, poetry stands as one of the earliest forms of artistic expression, with the Epic of...
by mlcsupport | Mar 27, 2024 | Stacks and Facts
Have you ever wanted to learn more about your town? Do you like gossip and facts about trees? You need to check out the WPA files! WPA stands for Works Progress Administration, which was organized as part of the New Deal to provide jobs for unemployed Americans during...
by mlcsupport | Mar 18, 2024 | Stacks and Facts
It’s Women’s History Month. Quick! Name your favorite female Mississippi author! There are a slew of wonderfully talented authoresses hailing from our great state, and they have written (and continue to write!) in a number of genres: romance, mystery,...
by mlcsupport | Feb 26, 2024 | Stacks and Facts
That All May Read. That’s the slogan of the National Library Services for the Blind and Print Disabled. I think about those words a lot. In 2018, the National Health Interview Survey found that over 32 million American adults experienced vision...
by mlcsupport | Feb 19, 2024 | Stacks and Facts
We all know fiction genres: romance, science fiction, fantasy… all types of books that have their own shelves in bookstores everywhere. But what about nonfiction? Most people know what nonfiction is: books about real-world concepts, people, or events. You might not...
