Montgomery Community Media

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 […]

Montgomery County Public Libraries (MCPL) maintain an extensive collection of materials for county residents. Have you ever wondered what the county is reading? We turned to MCPL to find out. Children’s Collection Specialist Jeannette Handler gave us the answers. For the month of November, the most read books by genre are: Juvenile Fiction Diary of […]

Save the date:  new Gaithersburg Library is scheduled to open Jan. 4. The Gaithersburg Interim Library, located on the second floor of Lakeforest Mall, will close its doors on October 31. See, Interim Library at Lakeforest Mall to Close Oct. 31 (Video). Its staff will be busy moving materials and preparing to open the newly […]

Montgomery County Public Libraries (MCPL) has announced that the Gaithersburg Interim Library at Lakeforest Mall will close Oct. 31 to allow staff to begin moving materials to the newly renovated library at 18330 Montgomery Village Ave. The move is expected to take approximately eight to ten weeks. A date for the public Grand Opening ceremony […]

Montgomery County Public Libraries (MCPL) has been named to the list of “Top 100 Libraries to Follow on Twitter,” along with other notable libraries and library systems in the U.S. and abroad. MCPL is ranked in 48th place on the list that is topped by The Library of Congress and the New York Public Library.  […]

To help ensure that Montgomery County Public Libraries (MCPL) customers have increased access to the materials/items they need from the system’s collection, four policy changes will take effect on Sunday, Feb 17. The changes will enable customers to: 1) Increase the number of checkouts on their account from 50 items to 100 items 2) Place […]

The Chevy Chase Library will be closed from Monday, December 10 through Tuesday, January 1 for repair, replacement and renovation of the mechanical piping distribution system used to support heating and cooling in the building. Montgomery County Public Libraries (MCPL) has announced that the normal three-week due dates for materials checked out the weeks of […]