Aldermen likely to request state funding to relocate library
Mayor Lynn Spruill and six Starkville aldermen decided Tuesday at a special-call work session to pursue three potential projects to ask the state to fund, narrowing down a longer list of ideas from earlier this month.
‘Banner Days’ reminds, inspires patrons of MSU Libraries
Mississippi State University Libraries has launched “A Banner Day” program at Mitchell Memorial Library.
MSU Libraries digitize Civil War diaries and letters
Mississippi State University Libraries has made available in its digital collections the Civil War era, first-hand accounts of the Orville Babcock Diaries and Letters of Pvt. Arthur McKinstry.
Michigan couple avoids jail over lost Dr. Seuss library book
A Michigan couple who faced jail after they borrowed a novel and a Dr. Seuss book from a local library and held onto them long past their return dates will remain free.
Turnipseed shares story of Ida B. Wells at Columbus library
It was only after high school, college and two master’s degrees that C. Sade Turnipseed said she ever learned about Ida B. Wells, the black woman journalist and radical activist who was an invaluable asset in the Civil Rights Movement and the fight against injustice.
Columbus library announces Festival of Trees
The Columbus-Lowndes Public Library will host an open house for its annual Festival of Trees Thursday, Dec. 10 from 4-6 p.m.
Columbus Library announces career fair and workshops
The Adult Services Department of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System announces it will host Job Readiness Workshops and a Career Fair in September.
Library hosts first ever open mic
Poets, writers, musicians and one novelist gathered in the second-floor meeting room of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library on Monday for the library’s first ever open mic.
Graphite drawings at Columbus library reflect nature’s design
Artist Susan Nawrocki of Columbus currently has several pieces of her artwork on display at the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library.
Froma Harrop: Why we still need public libraries
Younger Americans can hardly imagine a time when you had to visit a library to research the population of Phoenix in 1980.
MUW library renovation continues
Architects renovating the John Clayton Fant Memorial Library on Mississippi University for Women’s campus have begun Phase III of the renovations.
Columbus-Lowndes Library celebrates National Library Week
The Columbus-Lowndes Public Library System (CLPL) joins libraries in schools, campuses and communities nationwide in celebrating National Library Week April 12-18.
Teens in library build virtual worlds during Teen Tech Week
This week, a handful of teenagers have gathered in an upstairs room of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library for a couple of hours each day and planted themselves behind computers.
Local authors donate books to library archives
The Columbus-Lowndes Public Library announces that children’s book author Candy Grant of Columbus recently donated two first edition signed copies of her books.
Homeless people need libraries, and libraries need them, too
Jeffery Bailey spends nearly every day at his public library.
Flonzie Brown-Wright talk canceled
The civil rights movement program scheduled for tonight at the R.E. Hunt Museum and Cultural Center in Columbus has been canceled due to weather-related travel concerns for the speaker, Flonzie Brown-Wright.
Columbus Library hosting Freedom Summer exhibit
The Columbus-Lowndes Public Library is currently hosting the traveling exhibit “Stand Up!: Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964” through March 2.
With American Girl, library finds more than one way to discover the past
If young Marie-Grace Gardner had lived in Columbus in 1853, she would have gone to school at Franklin Academy, Mississippi’s first free public school.
Columbus Library to host civil rights programming
To introduce four documentaries with new footage illustrating the history of civil rights in America, the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library will host a series of discussion forums and scholarly presentations.
Library to host Festival of Trees, Open House Thursday
The Columbus-Lowndes Public Library invites the community to enter a winter wonderland of decorated trees.