The Memphis Public Libraries system has a new director. Dr. Eric D. Harris has been appointed to lead the library system, ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — This week is fall break for Memphis-Shelby County Schools, and the Memphis Public Libraries is holding some free activities to make sure students keep busy during their week off ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Memphis library workers, including those who staff the Benjamin Hooks Library, aren't granted civil service protections as other ...

Memphis library workers are seeking union recognition and reclassification from "appointed" to civil service status. Workers cite low pay, safety concerns, and languishing building repairs as key ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The City of Memphis is looking for community input on the renovations to the long-closed West Wing of the city's first ever library. The Cossitt Library, founded in 1893 through a ...

Executive orders from the state and federal administrations have affected Memphis Public Library operations and displays. City officials said the changes have been implemented out of concern for ...

MPL-WU members Photo Credit: MPL Workers United via Facebook Library workers are urging city leaders to give them civil service protections and restore their collective bargaining rights. Memphis ...

Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley ...

Memphis library workers, including those who staff the Benjamin Hooks Library, aren't granted civil service protections as other city workers are. (Photo: Memphis Public Libraries) As Memphis pauses ...