Because you provide me with so many hours of enjoyment.

~Margaret

It’s a valuable resource.

~Katrice

Libraries are critical for education.

~Stephen

We love you guys! We use the La Plata branch and everyone is helpful and friendly. Donnie makes great recommendations.

~Trey & Courtney

Tomika does an amazing job with the just wreathing class so I have to donate because she’s awesome!

~Katie

Love for reading and sharing that passion.

~Lisa

I decided to help out

~Michelle

I use the computers every day. Charlie and Natalia are very helpful!

~Allan

The children will find the books enjoyable.

~Beverly Baker

I believe in kids getting books young.

~Jeanette

Libraries are critical for education.

~Stephen

About to enjoy Norse mythology presentation!

~Sarah

Thank You, I and my boys are enjoying spending time there and discovering.

~Sylvie

I grew up on Middleton Rd, before it was Middletown Rd, and used to get on the bookmobile with mysiblings. I can’t imagine life without the library and wanted to put my money where my mouth is.

~Gale

The La Plata branch has been a big part of my life. When my daughter was young, we would take walks to the library together as part of our daddy/daughter time and now even though she has grown up, just recently we visited while she was home from college. I’m very appreciative of the library.

~Nell

As a child the library was my world. I use the Hoopla app regularly. During the lockdown my password expired! I came to the library called from the parking lot for a reset.

~Shelia M.

We would be lost without our library. We are both retired, and we get so much enjoyment from reading our library books. When the library closed during the shutdown, we were losing our minds. We re-read every book in this house. When the library re-opened with curbside pickup, it saved us. We really appreciate all that you guys did in order to keep our county libraries up and running. God has blessed us in so many ways, and it brings us much joy to be able to give to causes that are important to us. We previously made a donation to the Imagination Library, which is a program I really support. I am also interested in the “My Fresh Start: Free Showers” program, and I am so appreciative to CCPL for partnering with Lifestyles for addressing this basic need, and for making this program available to people who need it. Thanks for all that you guys do to serve our community. Best wishes.

~Nancy and Rob C.

Libraries are very important to the community, as a resource, a community meeting place, a media center, and above all a place that provides access to literature, to books for research and learning. They are very important institutions that are being attacked by a small group of narrow-minded people and need to be protected for future generations.

~Elisabeth

I think the public library is important to the community as a place for everyone to participate in reading, community activities and the ability to have technology resources available.

~Janet

Libraries hold knowledge and opportunities at your fingertips. I have got to travel places I read about and advanced in my career because of libraries growing up. Never lose the thirst for adventure.

~Geoffrey

CCPL is amazing! We enjoy our library adventures and the programs they put on.

~Nicole

Our Charles County MD libraries are such a valuable community resource. They are continually developing new ways to serve and inform our community and offer something for everybody.

~Bonnie

Loved improv comedy show!!

~Suzanna

I feel libraries are extremely important parts of the community

~Patricia

I have because I give, I give because I have, therefore I am never without 💚🤍💚

~Jehnell & Jerome L.

We value the important contribution libraries make to our communities.

~Joe & Erica

The staff at P.D. Brown Memorial Branch is amazing. Very helpful, professional, patient, and courteous. My favorite person because she is my son’s favorite person is the member who does StoryTime at 10am. I believe she is a teacher. She is a special person. Gifted in many ways with people and children. She still asks about my son by his name even though it has been months now since he has been to the library. Please tell her King says Hi 🙂

~Devin

I really appreciate libraries, especially the ones in Charles County. As President of the Charles County Literacy Council, I know that we are very grateful for the help we receive from several librarians, particularly Bill Stea, who is a Board Member and DauVeen Walker, who serves as our Library liaison. We are also extremely grateful to be able to use the tutoring rooms available at the Waldorf West library. Many of our tutors (including myself) use them often when working with our adult learners. I suspect that we account for a great number of the reservations for those rooms. Thank you to the Charles County Public Libraries!

~Sally

I have been using the Charles County library system since I began school in 1959. I lived in Bryans Road and loved to see the bookmobile on my street when I was young. I have continued throughout my life to use the public library, except for brief breaks in reading, and during COVID. Thank you to the Charles County Public Libraries for enriching my life beyond measure.

~Marsha

I’m a freelance editor, and I work at home with book projects to help bring them to press. I have also worked as a substitute teacher and educational aide in public schools, sometimes reading to children in classrooms and subbing in public school libraries for the librarian. I know how important it is to have good books. What a difference they make in young minds. I recently adopted a kitten in Waldorf, and I’ve been reading and learning a lot from helpful people who work with them about such young kittens. One good book is, “Know Your Cat,” by author Bruce Fogle, D.V.M. I hope you can add some more reading material about cat parenting. You’re my choice for Giving Tuesday.

~Paula

Thanks for being there!

~Warren

Love Tomika’s crafting program! She’s amazing! We also love Saturday story times!

~Katie

I like to support the library.

~Pamela

I like the programs the library provides.

~Sheila

Member of C4CCPL, frequent user of the Library

~William

You are a blessing to the community.

~LH

I truly appreciate the library and its staff who are always so helpful.

~Linda

I love this library!

~Paula

Programming is such an important part of what you offer the community.

~Molly

I use the library all the time, both by checking out books and electronically with Libby. I think libraries are very important to our communities providing valuable services and programs.

~Janet

I’ve been a library user for decades and want to see them continue.

~Bill

The library has always represented a safe, happy space for me.

~Lynn

I love to read and want to pass that gift to others.

~Jeannette

I love the library!

~Terri

Libraries are so much more than the repository of books – it is a lifeline. Thanks for all you do.

~Judy

I’m donating in honor of my niece’s 50th birthday.

~Sally

Thank you for providing me with a lifetime of joy – libraries and librarians are the best!

~Judy

I think the library is a great resource and important place and I wanted to give to see it continue.

~Karen

To thank the library for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library program. I got my 7.5 month old great-grandson signed up.

~Sharyn

To have a thriving local library! Thank you for all that you do for our community!

~Erica

I believe access to books and reading is fundamental and can be very enjoyable. We need libraries.

~Anonymous

You all take good care of me.

~Judy

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. – Walter Cronkite

~John

Happy to help support your support for all members of the local community

~Marjorie

Helpful. Great place to research and to personally develop.

~Daniel

To be a blessing to others as I was blessed when I needed use of the library.

~Faith

We use the library and support its mission.

~Terry

Thanks for all the ways CCPL enhances our community.

~Malinda

The libraries in Charles County are a very important and reliable source of information and aid to the residents here.

~Sara

Critical community service!

~Karen

As an immigrant, libraries did not exist back in my home country Nigeria. Coming here, the library was my solace and entertainment center in my first few years…still is. I would like to give back to the less fortunate. The library is an amazing institution!

~Chidinma

I love having a community library here.

~Nancy

I cannot imagine the library not being there, you know. I pop in every now and then to use the computer, scan documents, borrow a book. The Waldorf West branch, I hear, helps the homeless with hygiene necessities. The library has a great impact on my life. Not as much as when I was a teenager without a job, but still an impact that will be very noticeable if it were not, and I can only imagine the impact it would have on those who do not have as much as me. I remember living in Hyattsville, discovering the library, walking about a mile (or a little more) every 3 weeks to borrow a bagful of books. The librarians were always pleased at the amount of books I would borrow. Such warm memories when I think about a library.

~Chidi

Love of public libraries. The need to keep them independent and representing ALL points of view and interests!

~Suzanne

My children and I love the library. It’s one of our favorite places to spend time together.

~Teneil

I take my boy to the library all the time.

~Xin

Local library, love the cause.

~Jeniah

Love reading and everyone at Waldorf West is super great pulling books and putting them on hold for me to pick up. Thank you!

~Diane