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County officials are discussing options for the 40-year-old Eldersburg branch of the Carroll County Public Library system and will commission a feasibility study to determine if it should be renovated or rebuilt entirely. Of the seven branch libraries, the Eldersburg branch, at 6400 W. Hemlock Drive, is the county’s busiest. “We have the most foot traffic, we have the most circulation out of ...
BALTIMORE -- Forty Carroll County, Maryland, students, ranging from sixth to ninth graders, spent 10 hours across two days this month preparing to defend or prosecute a fictional legal case based on a distracted driving charge. The inaugural free mock trial camp for middle schoolers at the Exploration Commons library branch culminated in a trial at Westminster’s historic courthouse. Although ...
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The Carroll County Public Library system has 225 Acer Chromebooks that can be checked out just like any book, for up to three weeks at a time. The Chromebooks provide their own internet as well.
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Pepper, who lives at the Carroll County Public Library system’s Westminster branch at 50 E. Main St., is capable of customizable interactions and gestures through the power of coding, using Choregraphe, a coding language similar to Python.
Sunday was “a perfect February day for a stroll,” according to Lisa Picker, director of communications for the Carroll County Public Library system, as about two dozen families walked through the new Story Stroll at Deer Park in Westminster on its opening day.