Tag: Montgomery County

  • July Fun in the Branches

    July Fun in the Branches

    Head to our Branches for indoor fun this month! Damascus Library 7/12 Duplo Blocks Building Gaithersburg Library 7/1-7/31 July Picnic Scavenger Hunt Germantown Library 7/3-7/31 Find Monty Scavenger Hunt 7/5, 12, 19 & 26 Drop-in Chess Kensington Park Library 7/1-7/31 Monty the Dog Scavenger Hunt 7/30 Kindness Cloud Noyes Library for Young Children 7/1-7/15 Take…

  • Celebrate Random Acts of Kindness Week at MCPL

    Celebrate Random Acts of Kindness Week at MCPL

    MCPL celebrates our very own Random Acts of Kindness Week from 7/30/23 thru 8/5/23.  Random Acts of Kindness week complements this year’s Summer Reading theme, “All Together Now” and “Kindness, Friendship, and Unity”, as well as the Montgomery County organizations we are partnering with this year — Montgomery County Animal Services and Adoption Center and Friends of Montgomery County Animals, Manna Food Center, and Montgomery Parks Foundation.  We hope this will…

  • Summer Movies at MCPL

    Summer Movies at MCPL

    Stay cool this summer at the library Spend summer afternoons and evenings with us, watching movies! Check the schedule below and grab the popcorn! Sunday, July 2: 3-5pm Summer Movie Matinee: Top Gun: Maverick Movie afternoon at the library! at Marilyn J. Praisner Library Come cool off in the library for an afternoon movie showing…

  • Borrow Demon Copperhead on Hoopla! Plus other hot ebooks and audiobooks this summer

    Borrow Demon Copperhead on Hoopla! Plus other hot ebooks and audiobooks this summer

    The wait is long to borrow Barbara Kingsolver’s newest hit book, but it’s possible to read it right now, with your MCPL card. Borrow Demon Copperhead on Hoopla, along with all of the other great titles available on the app this summer!

  • Come to MCPL’s 2023 Summer Reading Challenge Kickoff!

    Come to MCPL’s 2023 Summer Reading Challenge Kickoff!

    Starting June 17, kids can join in the Montgomery County Public Libraries Summer Reading Challenge! and join the Kickoff Party at Rockville Memorial Library.

  • MCPL’s Summer Reading 2023 Partners

    MCPL’s Summer Reading 2023 Partners

    We appreciate our 2023 Summer Reading Partners! MCPL and the Washington Nationals are teaming up to encourage reading! The Washington Nationals will give MCPL Summer Reading Challenge! participants who earn Badge 2 a voucher for two to attend a regular season baseball game for free. Vouchers are available while supplies last. MCPL is working with Montgomery County Animal…

  • Celebrate Pride 2023 Events at MCPL

    Celebrate Pride 2023 Events at MCPL

    Join Pride Events at MCPL This June Saturday, June 3: 2:30-4:00pmPaint your Pride & Teen Advisory Board Meeting  at Aspen Hill Library Join us for a Teen Advisory Board meeting and Paint your Pride event! Saturday, June 3:3-4:15pmTeen Book Club — Virtual Virtual book club presented by the Teen Advisory Board. This month, we’ve chose the…

  • Celebrate Juneteenth This Month at MCPL

    Celebrate Juneteenth This Month at MCPL

    Celebrate Juneteenth at MCPL Join one of our many events this June at MCPL to acknowledge, learn about, and commemorate Juneteenth. Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, informing the freed slaves there that the Emancipation Proclamation had gfrandted them freedom two years before. We hope you’ll join our Juneteenth events this…

  • Join the 7th Annual Olney Writer’s Group Literary Forum

    Join the 7th Annual Olney Writer’s Group Literary Forum

    The Olney Writer’s Group presents the 5/7 literary forum featuring local authors. Join us for a literary forum on May 7 from 2-4pm at the Olney Library, including readings by local writers of newly-published works or works-in-progress. Please come out and support these talented authors from our own community! Works are in a variety of…

  • April Fun in the Branches

    April Fun in the Branches

    Head to our Branches for indoor fun this month! Gaithersburg Library 4/1-4/310 maryland Wildflower Scavenger Hunt Germantown Library 4/1-4/30 spring scavenger hunt 4/4 drop-in craft: create your own pinwheel Drop-in and celebrate spring by coloring and creating your own pinwheel! 4/8 Storytime stations Read, sing, write, talk & play your way through each of our…

  • MCPL Celebrates National Poetry Month 2023

    MCPL Celebrates National Poetry Month 2023

    National Poetry Month at MCPL! Celebrate National Poetry Month with special displays in our branches, and several programs that honor this beloved literary form. Saturday, April 8: 2-3:30pmDIY Magnetic Poetry at Kensington Park Library 2:30-4pmTeen Advisory Board Meeting & Poetry Slam! – presented by the Teen Advisory Board at Aspen Hill Library Saturday, April 22…

  • Contemporary Conversations this April with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Tyehimba Jess

    Contemporary Conversations this April with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Tyehimba Jess

    Join Pulitzer Prize-winner, fiction and poetry author Tyehimba Jess, on April 27 at 5:30pm at Gaithersburg Library for a Contemporary Conversation to celebrate National Poetry Month. Jess will discuss his work as a poet and fiction writer. Jess is the author of two books of poetry, Leadbelly  and Olio. (Borrow Leadbelly in our catalog.) Olio won the 2017 Pulitzer…