From new library cards to visits to our branches, community room reservations and on-site wifi and tech access, to over TWELVE MILLION checkouts of print and digital media combined, the Montgomery County community showed up at the libraries last year!
MCPL Serves Every MoCo Voice, Every Story!
Montgomery County Public Libraries serves Montgomery County’s 1.1 million residents in 21 branches across the County, plus adults who live elsewhere but work or go to school in the County, and residents of neighboring District of Columbia, or Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, or Prince William Counties in Northern Virginia.
Nearly 5 Million Digital Checkouts
Customers checked out 4,677,742 digital materials in 2025!
Highlights included:
Top 5 Adult Ebooks, Fiction
- The Women: a Novel by Kristin Hannah
- Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
- The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
- Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
- The Wedding People: a Novel by Alison Espach
Top 5 Adult Ebooks, Nonfiction
- The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
- Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
- Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten
- Abundance: What Progress Takes by Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein
Top 5 Adult Audiobooks, Fiction
- Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Women by Kristin Hannah
- Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Teen Fiction
- Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
- A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
- Reckless by Lauren Roberts
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
- Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
Teen Audiobooks
- A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling
- Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
Children’s Ebooks
- Kristy and the Walking Disaster by Ellen Crenshaw
- Claudia and the Bad Joke by Ann M. Martin and Arley Nopra
- Dog Man: Big Jim Begins by Dav Pilkey
- Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder by Dav Pilkey
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess by Jeff Kinney
2025 Shelved Now Available in Aspen!
2025 Shelved is now available for customers who opt-in to record their reading history.
Get your Year in Review Summary by logging into your Aspen account on desktop or mobile!
Over 8 Million Print Checkouts
Customers checked out over 8 million digital materials in 2025!
Top 5 Adult Books, Fiction
- The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
- The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
- The Women by Kristin Hannah
- Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby van Pelt
- To Die For by David Baldacci
Top 5 Adult Books, Nonfiction
- The Demon of Unrest, by Erik Larson
- The Wager by David Grann
- The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
- Outlive: the Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia
- The Odyssey by Homer
Top 5 Children’s Picture Books
- Bluey: Bob Bilby
- Bluey: the Beach
- Construction Site: Road Crew Coming Through, by Sherri Duskey Rinker
- The Pigeon Has to Go to School by Mo Willems
- Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late by Mo Willems
Top 5 Children’s Graphic Novels
- Dog Man: a Tale of Two Kitties by Dav Pilkey
- Plants vs. Zombies: Lawnmageddon by Paul Tobin
- Big Nate: Welcome to My World by Lincoln Peirce
- Big Nate: Great Minds Think Alike by Lincoln Peirce
- Babymouse 2: Our Hero by Jennifer L. Holm
Top 5 Teen Fiction
- The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
- Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
- We’ll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Check out these and so many, many more materials in our catalog!
Library Cards
MCPL users acquired 62,000 new library cards in 2025! Cards are available to Montgomery County residents, those who attend school or work in Montgomery County, and residents of the District of Columbia, and in Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, or Prince William Counties in Northern Virginia.
Get your very own MCPL card! And make sure your family and friends have theirs, too!
Computers and Technology
Our branches offer computer access to our customers, in addition to printing services. MCPL customers logged 362,012 computer sessions in our branches in 2025. Desktop computers are available at all MCPL locations except Noyes Library for Young Children. Just log in with your library card number and PIN.
MCPL Computer Access
Collaboration Spaces and Meeting Rooms
MCPL offers plenty of space for individual or group needs. Choose from quiet study rooms, collaboration spaces, and meeting rooms, for individuals and groups (one booking per day, for a total of two hours.) In 2025, our customers used nearly 112,000 rooms!
Make online reservations for a space at your nearest branch with availability.
New Resources and Materials in 2025
Video games Available for Checkout
The MCPL video game collection debuted for checkouts this November! Games for Nintendo Switch, Playstation 5 and Xbox X are available across our branches.
Genealogy
My China Roots allows you to Search millions of genealogy records from mainland China and the Chinese diaspora. The database offers records in Chinese and English, automated translation, online workshops and individualized family research support.
African-American Heritage database is exclusively devoted to African-American family history research. It brings together critical records and connects them to a community of research experts.
We added the Baltimore Banner and Baltimore Banner Montgomery to the list of news sources MCPL cardholders can access for free!
Sign up for your Banner subscriptions! And don’t forget, you also have access to the Washington Post and New York Times.
Access these digital resources and many more with your MCPL card!
Visit an MCPL branch today to celebrate every voice, every story.