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Prince George's County Memorial Library System briefs council on youth literacy, Books from Birth and mobile workforce services
Summary
The county library system reported 1.5 million visits in 2025, described growth in early-literacy programs (17,617 enrolled in Books from Birth), and said a $2.2 million federal grant will fund a mobile Library-to-Go career connector to serve jobseekers.
Prince George's County Memorial Library System officials told the Education and Workforce Development Committee on Feb. 9 that the system is expanding early-literacy and workforce services while seeking partnerships to scale teen and after-school programming.
"We had 1 and a half million people entering our buildings within a calendar year," said Colin Kim, the library system's business analytics manager, describing 2025 door counts collected with Tableau under a state grant. He said the library uses branch-level metrics and a customer-satisfaction Net Promoter Score (82.4 in January from nearly 9,000 responses) to guide programming and…
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