Black History Month programs at the libraries will feature a puppet show, stories from black history and black authors and Freedom Quilt squares.

Students in the cabinet-making class at Hylton High School and students in an after-school program at Beville Middle School have been working with Prince William County Public Schools to build Little Free Libraries for use in or near schools. Little Free Libraries are small cabinets filled with free books that are placed in public areas in communities in more than 80 countries.

Suzahn Vollstad's essay on the book recently won the First Place Grand Prize for A Book That Shaped Me, a summer writing contest sponsored by the Library of Congress.

This year’s Library of Congress National Book Festival will take place on Saturday, September 2 at the Washington Convention Center.

Prince William County Library System is launching a strategic plan process to provide direction to the libraries over the next five years. The process includes discovery, engagement, development and implementation phases. "The end goal is to make sure that the services we are providing to our community are the best they can be," said Library Director Deborah Wright. "

Joyce Phillips, a former chairman of the Prince William Library Board of Trustees and a retired school teacher, was honored recently when the pavilion at Independent Hill Neighborhood Library in Manassas was named the Joyce Phillips Pavilion during the library's 30th anniversary celebration.

Parents can help children who will enter kindergarten in August 2017 get excited about starting school and foster their successful transition to kindergarten. Take him or her to a Kindergarten Readiness session offered by staff from Prince William County Public Schools during May at Prince William County Public Library locations

A bigger and better Dumfries Neighborhood Library recently opened in the Triangle Shopping Plaza, and people are excited about it. During a recent ribbon cutting, a crowd of about 50 packed the library, with its two community rooms, a larger childrens' area and more public access computers.