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Prince George's County Memorial Library System briefs council on youth literacy, Books from Birth and mobile workforce services

Prince George's County Council Education and Workforce Development Committee · February 9, 2026
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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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