Montgomery Community Media

Montgomery County Public Libraries (MCPL) is recruiting high school students for its Teen Advisory Group (TAG). Teens, ages 14 to 18, who like to read, write, and would be interested in perhaps interviewing authors and public officials are encouraged to apply. Any teens interested in doing social media, YouTube and video productions, and setting up […]

Internationally acclaimed local author George Pelecanos will discuss and read from his book “Hard Revolution” on July 31 at a benefit for the new Silver Spring Library to be held at Eastern Village Cohousing, 7981 Eastern Ave., in Silver Spring beginning at 7 p.m. in the meeting room. Proceeds from ticket sales will support an […]

Montgomery County Public Libraries (MCPL) maintain an extensive collection of materials for county residents to check out. Have you ever wondered what the county’s library visitors are reading? We turned to our county’s librarians to find out. For the month of May, the most read books by genre are: Juvenile Fiction Diary of a Wimpy […]

Montgomery County Public Libraries (MCPL) will open its first digital media lab at the Long Branch Library on Saturday, May 17, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 11 a.m. Designed with teens in mind, the digital media lab is the first physical space to open as part of the library system’s Studio i Makerspace initiative. The […]

The Montgomery County Public Libraries (MCPL) will have educational kits at numerous branches designed to spark an interest in science beginning May 10. The GO! Kits are part of MCPL’s ACE (All Children Excel) initiative to help children succeed in school. To help meet that need, MCPL has developed educational, interactive Go! Kits to introduce […]

Montgomery County Public Libraries (MCPL) maintain an extensive collection of materials for county residents to check out. Have you ever wondered what the county’s library visitors are reading? We turned to our county’s librarians to find out. For the month of April, the most read books by genre are: Juvenile Fiction Babymouse series by Jennifer […]

Montgomery County Public Libraries (MCPL) has released its 2013 “Report to the Community” which is available online. The report offers an overview of the activities of Montgomery County Public Libraries for the past year, including a numerical breakdown of the more than 24 million uses of the 21 branches during 2013. For example: nearly 10,500,000 […]

In observance of National Library Week (April 13-19), Montgomery County Public Libraries (MCPL) is conducting an online Customer Satisfaction Survey between now and April 26. The survey gives customers an opportunity to provide MCPL with valuable feedback on services, materials, facilities and resources. The 12-question survey should take just a few minutes to complete. Customers […]

Montgomery County Public Libraries (MCPL) is offering two free art classes for active seniors (55 +) at Twinbrook and White Oak Libraries starting in April. All class materials will be provided. Each participant will complete at least one finished quality piece of work by the end of the class. Both classes will be taught by […]

Montgomery County Public Libraries (MCPL) has kicked off the New Year by launching three new online services — Zinio for Libraries, 3M Cloud Library e-book lending system and Learn4Life – that will appeal to a wide variety of customers. Zinio, the world’s largest digital newsstand, is designed especially for public library users. The service digitally […]