Citizens For Maryland Libraries

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Founded in 1982, Citizens for Maryland Libraries (CML) is made up of interested citizens, non-profit organizations, libraries, library trustees, and professionals from throughout the state. Citizens for Maryland Libraries was formed for these purposes:
1.Create greater public awareness of the need for and services of libraries of all kinds.
2.Promote laws to provide improved support to libraries.

3.Foster, promote, and help local library friends and support groups.
4.Prepare Fact sheets on library support issues and friends, letting citizens know what they can do to help.
5.Serve as a sounding board for citizens of Maryland on library issues.
6.Seek private funds to supplement libraries.
7.Cooperate with Maryland Library AssociationExternal web site - The State's professional group.
8.Produce a Newsletter on library activities around the State.
9.Promote recognition of volunteer library leadership through its awards.
10.Testify, as needed, in support of libraries and library users.

06/07/2026
06/07/2026

Did you know that Maryland has a circulating library specifically to serve the blind and print disabled? The Archives Library Services team, Megan Craynon & Andy Yamazaki, were honored to host Director of the Maryland State Library for the Blind & Print Disabled (MLBPD), John Owen, for a tour of the Maryland State Archives’ second storage facility. The MLBPD is a unit with the Maryland State Library Agency and is the Regional Network Library for the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, serving visually challenged individuals across our state. The MLBPD is located on Park Avenue, in Baltimore, open 8am - 5pm, Monday through Friday, and can be contacted by phone: 410-230-2424 or email: reference​.desk@mar​yland.gov​ to obtain information about their services. The Archives staff are always glad to connect with sister agencies, to learn about their mission and to share information about the work of our agency. The specifics of our work may vary, but we share a passion for serving the people of our state.

06/05/2026
06/05/2026
06/05/2026
05/31/2026

Lewis R. Riley Library grand opening and ribbon-cutting Wednesday, May 20, 2026, at 33030 Old Ocean City Road in Parsonsburg, Maryland.

05/29/2026

Library leaders from across the state gathered in Annapolis this morning as Governor Wes Moore signed several important library bills into law. The bills provide critical funding for Maryland’s 24 public library systems, three Regional Resource Centers, the Maryland State Library Resource Center and the Governor’s Young Readers Program. In addition, county library boards now have the ability to add a student member.

Many thanks to Governor Moore and the General Assembly for their continued support of Maryland libraries. A special thanks also goes out to our partners and the many community members who worked hard on behalf of public libraries throughout the session.

05/25/2026

The books had to be light and small enough to fit in servicemen's pockets. The motto of the Council on Books in Wartime was: "Books Are Weapons in the War of Ideas."

05/25/2026

“Decent, but not too highbrow.” That’s how one volunteer described the kind of fiction he and his colleagues solicited from their Hibbing, Minnesota, neighbors for the second of three book collection campaigns the American Library Association sponsored for servicemen during World War I.

ALA established its Library War Service in 1917 to provide books and library services to U.S. soldiers and sailors both in training at home and serving in Europe, raising $5 million from public donations and holding three book drives—one in September 1917, one in March 1918, and one in January 1919. This second book drive generated 3 million books, many going overseas, others ending up on the shelves of 36 training-camp libraries erected through Carnegie Corporation funding and managed by ALA volunteers across the country.

During the war, tens of thousands of servicemen spent much of their free time reading in those camp libraries and near the European battlefronts. By poring over “decent but not too highbrow” fiction, many improved their literary skills beyond the merely functional. The affinity they developed for these services often carried over into postwar use and support of public libraries.

Read more about ALA's Library War Service: https://bit.ly/4v7IDPV

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