Chapters: FOLMC

Make a fun project on the doorsteps of the Noyes Library for Young Children.

Join Ms. Luz in using paper plates and cut out paper to make a cute owl! All materials are provided, just bring your creative side.

All outdoor programing is weather permitting.

Sponsored by Friends of the Library, Montgomery County.

Looking for something to do until our craft program? Take a look at these resources for kids using your library card.  Don’t have a card right now?  No worries!  Find out how to Get a Library Card.

Hoopla – e-audiobooks, ebooks, tv shows, and movies

TumbleBooks – books that read themselves

OverDrive for Kids – audiobooks and ebooks

Kanopy Kids– videos and animated books

BookFlix – animated stories

Explora Educators, Explora Primary School – education resources

1,000 Books Before Kindergarten – sign up online today, and print out your child’s reading log and your list of Early Literacy Moments

By joining this MCPL program, you agree to abide by rules of conduct. Library staff has the authority to remove you from this program if they deem your behavior to be inappropriate, to ensure the safety of staff and customers.

Accommodation Requests

Please place your request for English-language captioning or sign language interpretation at least five days before the library-sponsored program you plan to attend. Contact the Assistant Facilities and Accessibility Program Manager at 240-777-0002 with all other accommodation requests.

Experimentation and exploring the world of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math on the doorsteps of the Noyes Library for Young Children. Come join Mr. Sean as we craft our own hand sanitizer. Make you gel and give it a scent that makes you happy.

Part of the Maryland STEM Festival.

All outdoor programing is weather permitting; the rain date for this program is Saturday, October 9th, 2021.

Sponsored by Friends of the Library, Montgomery County.

Looking for something to do until this program? Take a look at these resources for kids using your library card.  Don’t have a card right now?  No worries!  Find out how to Get a Library Card.

Hoopla – e-audiobooks, ebooks, tv shows, and movies

TumbleBooks – books that read themselves

OverDrive for Kids – audiobooks and ebooks

Kanopy Kids– videos and animated books

BookFlix – animated stories

Explora Educators, Explora Primary School – education resources

1,000 Books Before Kindergarten – sign up online today, and print out your child’s reading log and your list of Early Literacy Moments

By joining this MCPL program, you agree to abide by rules of conduct. Library staff has the authority to remove you from this program if they deem your behavior to be inappropriate, to ensure the safety of staff and customers.

Accommodation Requests

Please place your request for English-language captioning or sign language interpretation at least five days before the library-sponsored program you plan to attend. Contact the Assistant Facilities and Accessibility Program Manager at 240-777-0002 with all other accommodation requests.

Kids will create their own simple moving robots, or wiggle bots, during this outdoor program at the Long Branch Library.

Kids will learn how a circuit works, making their own simple circuit using a motor and using that skill to create their own simple moving robots, or wiggle bots!  They’ll decorate their wiggle bots and experiment with different strategies for making their wiggle bots move.

This program is for children ages 8 – 13. Registration is required.

Presented in partnership with the KID Museum.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Library, Montgomery County.

Outdoor programs are weather permitting, so please call the Long Branch Library at 240-777-0910 to check the program status if it is raining.

Accommodation Requests

Please place your request for English-language captioning or sign language interpretation at least five days before the library-sponsored program you plan to attend. Contact the Assistant Facilities and Accessibility Program Manager at 240-777-0002 with all other accommodation requests.

Make a fun project on the doorsteps of the Noyes Library for Young Children.

Join Ms. Luz in using paper plates and cut out paper to make a cute owl! All materials are provided, just bring your creative side.

All outdoor programing is weather permitting.

Sponsored by Friends of the Library, Montgomery County.

Looking for something to do until our craft program? Take a look at these resources for kids using your library card.  Don’t have a card right now?  No worries!  Find out how to Get a Library Card.

Hoopla – e-audiobooks, ebooks, tv shows, and movies

TumbleBooks – books that read themselves

OverDrive for Kids – audiobooks and ebooks

Kanopy Kids– videos and animated books

BookFlix – animated stories

Explora Educators, Explora Primary School – education resources

1,000 Books Before Kindergarten – sign up online today, and print out your child’s reading log and your list of Early Literacy Moments

By joining this MCPL program, you agree to abide by rules of conduct. Library staff has the authority to remove you from this program if they deem your behavior to be inappropriate, to ensure the safety of staff and customers.

Accommodation Requests

Please place your request for English-language captioning or sign language interpretation at least five days before the library-sponsored program you plan to attend. Contact the Assistant Facilities and Accessibility Program Manager at 240-777-0002 with all other accommodation requests.

Experimentation and exploring the world of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math on the doorsteps of the Noyes Library for Young Children. Come join Mr. Sean as we craft our own hand sanitizer. Make you gel and give it a scent that makes you happy.

Part of the Maryland STEM Festival.

All outdoor programing is weather permitting; the rain date for this program is Saturday, October 23rd, 2021.

Sponsored by Friends of the Library, Montgomery County.

Looking for something to do until this program? Take a look at these resources for kids using your library card.  Don’t have a card right now?  No worries!  Find out how to Get a Library Card.

Hoopla – e-audiobooks, ebooks, tv shows, and movies

TumbleBooks – books that read themselves

OverDrive for Kids – audiobooks and ebooks

Kanopy Kids– videos and animated books

BookFlix – animated stories

Explora Educators, Explora Primary School – education resources

1,000 Books Before Kindergarten – sign up online today, and print out your child’s reading log and your list of Early Literacy Moments

By joining this MCPL program, you agree to abide by rules of conduct. Library staff has the authority to remove you from this program if they deem your behavior to be inappropriate, to ensure the safety of staff and customers.

Accommodation Requests

Please place your request for English-language captioning or sign language interpretation at least five days before the library-sponsored program you plan to attend. Contact the Assistant Facilities and Accessibility Program Manager at 240-777-0002 with all other accommodation requests.

The winners and runners-up of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Story Contest (Student and Adult sections) will read from and comment briefly on their stories.

This event is part of the 2021 F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival, co-sponsored by Montgomery County Public Libraries and the Friends of the Library, Montgomery County.

John Edgar Wideman is this year’s Festival Honoree.  For more information on all the Festival events, which run through October 30, 2021, please see http://fscottfestival.org/  Registration via the festival web site is encouraged, but not required.

This program will be streamed live on MCPL’s Facebook (no need for an account).

https://www.facebook.com/MontgomeryCountyPublicLibraries 

[Notes:  Join the link to Facebook Live, above, at the time of the program on October 21, 2021.  You will see the program title at or near the top of the page.  If the program gets interrupted, or you get interrupted from where you are viewing the program, simply come back to the link again and rejoin the program.  You will also be able to re-watch the program later via the same link, just navigate to the program date to see it again.].

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Looking for books by and about F. Scott Fitzgerald? Take a look at these resources using your library card. Don’t have a card right now? No worries, try our newly improved Digital Library card https://mcpl.link/DigitalCard  and you’ll be ready to go in minutes.

on Hoopla, go to https://www.hoopladigital.com/search?page=1&q=f+scott+fitzgerald&scope=everything&type=direct

on Overdrive, go to https://mcplmd.overdrive.com/search?query=f+scott+fitzgerald

By joining this Virtual MCPL program, you agree to abide by rules of conduct. Library staff has the authority to remove you from this program if they deem your behavior to be inappropriate, to ensure the safety of staff and customers.

Learn about MCPL’s Zoom Security Settings

Accommodation Requests

Please place your request for English-language captioning or sign language interpretation at least five days before the library-sponsored program you plan to attend. Contact the Assistant Facilities and Accessibility Program Manager at 240-777-0002 with all other accommodation requests.

Make a fun project on the doorsteps of the Noyes Library for Young Children.

Join Ms. Luz in using paper plates and cut out paper to make a cute owl! All materials are provided, just bring your creative side.

All outdoor programing is weather permitting.

Sponsored by Friends of the Library, Montgomery County.

Looking for something to do until our craft program? Take a look at these resources for kids using your library card.  Don’t have a card right now?  No worries!  Find out how to Get a Library Card.

Hoopla – e-audiobooks, ebooks, tv shows, and movies

TumbleBooks – books that read themselves

OverDrive for Kids – audiobooks and ebooks

Kanopy Kids– videos and animated books

BookFlix – animated stories

Explora Educators, Explora Primary School – education resources

1,000 Books Before Kindergarten – sign up online today, and print out your child’s reading log and your list of Early Literacy Moments

By joining this MCPL program, you agree to abide by rules of conduct. Library staff has the authority to remove you from this program if they deem your behavior to be inappropriate, to ensure the safety of staff and customers.

Accommodation Requests

Please place your request for English-language captioning or sign language interpretation at least five days before the library-sponsored program you plan to attend. Contact the Assistant Facilities and Accessibility Program Manager at 240-777-0002 with all other accommodation requests.

“Are All Stories True?” Discuss the possibilities with 2021 Honoree John Edgar Wideman, with keynote speaker Michael Dirda, and special guests Walton Muyumba and Eileen McGuckian.

This event is part of the 2021 F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival, co-sponsored by Montgomery County Public Libraries and the Friends of the Library, Montgomery County.

John Edgar Wideman is this year’s Festival Honoree.  For more information on all the Festival events, which run through October 30, 2021, please see http://fscottfestival.org/   Registration via the festival web site is encouraged, but not required.  The Festival Website also includes information on the morning and afternoon writer’s workshops, which require advanced registration and a modest fee.  The rest of the virtual program’s events are free (10:45am – 4:15 pm).

This program (except workshops) will be streamed live on MCPL’s Facebook (no need for an account).

https://www.facebook.com/MontgomeryCountyPublicLibraries 

[Notes:  Join the link to Facebook Live, above, at the time of the program on October 30, 2021.  You will see the program title at or near the top of the page.  If the program gets interrupted, or you get interrupted from where you are viewing the program, simply come back to the link again and rejoin the program.  You will also be able to re-watch the program later via the same link, just navigate to the program date to see it again.].

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Festival Schedule (as of August 10, 2021)

>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Morning Workshops, require separate registration and fees >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Saturday, October 30 | 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Writing Workshops

Ellen Prentiss Campbell:

“Time Travel on the Page: Fiction Fueled by History and the Imagination” (Historical Fiction)

Margaret Talbot:

“The First Sentence, the First Paragraph” (Non-Fiction)

Lauren Francis-Sharma:

“A Different Way to Make a Writer” (Fiction)

William Jones:

“What is Afrofuturism and Why Is it Important?” (Afrofuturist Fiction)

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>  Main Program >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

10:45-11:00:

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Gary Berg-Cross, President, F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference, Inc.

11:00-12:00 p.m.

Keynote Talk

Michael Dirda:

“Weekly Deadlines: A Personal History of The Washington Post Book World”

1:15 p.m.-2:10 p.m.

Awards Ceremony

Recognition of Montgomery County High School F. Scott Fitzgerald Scholars

Taryn S. Trazkovich

Introduction of John Edgar Wideman

Walton Muyumba

Presentation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature

Gary Berg-Cross

Acceptance and Reading

John Edgar Wideman

2:10 p.m.-2:50 p.m.

“A Conversation About the Art of Fiction”

John Edgar Wideman and Walton Muyumba

3:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m.

Illustrated Talk:

“F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Rockville: Rockville in the 1920s”

Eileen McGuckian

​>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Afternoon Workshops require separate registration and fees >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

Writing Workshops

Leila Cabib:

“Stop Staring at That Blank Piece of Paper and Fold Into a Mini-Comic Book” (Graphic Fiction)

Tope Folarin:

“Are You Done Yet? On the Art of Revising” (Fiction)

E. Ethelbert Miller:

“Memoir as Vaccine: Saving Your Life and Memories” (Non-Fiction)

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Looking for books by and about F. Scott Fitzgerald? Take a look at these resources using your library card. Don’t have a card right now? No worries, try our newly improved Digital Library card https://mcpl.link/DigitalCard   and you’ll be ready to go in minutes.

on Hoopla, go to https://www.hoopladigital.com/search?page=1&q=f+scott+fitzgerald&scope=everything&type=direct

on Overdrive, go to https://mcplmd.overdrive.com/search?query=f+scott+fitzgerald

By joining this Virtual MCPL program, you agree to abide by rules of conduct. Library staff has the authority to remove you from this program if they deem your behavior to be inappropriate, to ensure the safety of staff and customers.

Learn about MCPL’s Zoom Security Settings

Accommodation Requests

Please place your request for English-language captioning or sign language interpretation at least five days before the library-sponsored program you plan to attend. Contact the Assistant Facilities and Accessibility Program Manager at 240-777-0002 with all other accommodation requests.