Meet Michelle Peltier, our new early literacy associate for our youth services department. Michelle comes to MPL from Plainfield-Guilford Township Public Library, where she served as a librarian assistant.  Prior to that, she was banquet room manager at Chateau Thomas Winery.  She is a graduate of Indiana State University and Plainfield (Indiana) High School, and [...]

Sammy the Toucan has made some great video interviews (or viderviews, if that were a real word) at the 2012 CYPD (Children & Young Persons Division) annual conference.  CYPD is a division of the Indiana Library Federation (ILF). You may watch them on Broadway Gal’s YouTube Channel. Enjoy! Cauli Le Chat MPL Roving Reporter Library Youth Services [...]

Need homework help?  We’ve got you covered.  Our program trailer below explains. Homework help programs are available through the library’s website for kids in grades K-6 and teens.  Our library staff will also direct you to online homework help-sites.  

Wild Thang, former MPL early literacy specialist but still willing to sub for absent Library staff when she can fit it into her new work schedule, made the “Animal Alphabet Song” video for her early literacy blog. Within the next few days, hers will become the most viewed video on the MPL YouTube Channel.  Which [...]