MPL in the News
“Parade of Nations International Fest set for November 17”
Action News 5 – November 16, 2023
“The Parade of Nations International Fest is happening November 17 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library.
Whitney Dunning with the Memphis Public Libraries joined Action News 5′s Andrew Douglas at the digital desk to talk about what they have planned.”
Eat This Book Festival to Celebrate Memphis Food Culture
Action News 5, November 15, 2023
“The Eat This Book Festival is happening November 18 at the Cossitt Branch Library.
Blake McVey with Memphis Public Library joined Action News 5′s Andrew Douglas at the digital desk to talk about what they have planned.
This year’s festival will celebrate Memphis food culture with vendors, food trucks, free samples, crafts, and more.”
Benjamin Hooks Central Library partners with ABC24 for ‘Reading Wizard’ Event
ABC 24 MEMPHIS – June 10, 2023
Making sure kids are reading this summer is the focus of a partnership between Memphis Public Libraries and ABC24.
‘Fresh out of your own garden’ | Free seeds and gardening program offered at Benjamin Hooks Central Library
ABC 24 MEMPHIS – March 5, 2023
Did you know the Memphis Public Library has a seed library at Central Library on the third floor? ABC24 Visual Storyteller Shiela Whaley took a look.
How a Mid-South technician is helping young & old learn the basic of electronics
ABC 24 MEMPHIS – March 5, 2023
Learning how things work can save people money or even highlight a new career path. Now one class is helping Mid-Southerner get back to basics when it comes to electronics.
“A look at the innovation behind Memphis Public Libraries”
ABC 24 MEMPHIS – November 30, 2022
Did you know the Memphis Public Library is one of the most innovative in the country? ABC24 Visual Storyteller Patrick Niedzwiedz took a look.
“Evicted Exhibition”
Memphis Flyer – November 30, 2022
For the months of December and January, the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library will host “Evicted,” a multimedia exhibition that explores the causes and consequences of housing insecurity.
The exhibition, presented here by the Memphis Public Interest Law Center and the Black Clergy Collaborative of Memphis, has traveled throughout the country, drawing inspiration from Matthew Desmond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name, which followed eight families in Milwaukee navigating housing insecurity.
Photo: Yassine el Mansouri
“‘Parade of Nations’ held by Benjamin L. Hooks Central Libraryons Book Store aims to be more than words”
ABC 24 MEMPHIS – November 20, 2022
“Performances by groups like the Chinese Ensemble and the Memphis Youth Arts Initiative aimed to express different cultures, showing similarities despite differences.”
“How Memphis Created the Nation’s Most Innovative Public Library”
SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE – November, 2021
“The Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library, a building of pale concrete and greenish glass, rises four stories in midtown Memphis. Walking through its automatic doors on a weekday afternoon, I hear unexpected sounds, muffled but unmistakable, almost shocking in a library context: the deep, quaking bass beats of Memphis hip-hop, plus a faint whine of power tools cutting through metal.”