Your journey starts here! A Pratt library card gives you access to everything from books, eBooks, and audio books to movies and music.
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Search and submit requests public libraries across Maryland for books, articles, and other materials, including audio/visual formats, musical scores, and microfilm.
Check out learning kits, games, technology, musical instruments, and more with the Library of Things collection, available to Pratt cardholders. Place a hold and pick up your items at any Pratt location.
Digital Maryland provides free online access to digital versions of rare and unique materials, including historical maps, photographs, reports, books, manuscripts, artwork, and other media.
Maryland residents can apply for a Pratt Library Card that allows access to all of Enoch Pratt Free Library’s resources including eBooks, streaming media, and databases. It’s easier than ever to get a Pratt Library card! Anyone who lives or owns property in Maryland is eligible for a free library card.
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Download popular eBooks, audiobooks, and more for all ages, including digital magazines formerly included in RBdidgital.
Your Pratt Library card gives you access to a large, curated catalog of educational, entertaining, and enriching films for adults, teens, and kids.
Download the PressReader app or read online to find current issues of over 7,000 newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times and The Economist.
Use your Pratt Library card to borrow thousands of digital comics, graphic novels and manga through your web browser or the Comics Plus app.
Stay up to date with local news, politics, business, entertainment, and more with nonprofit online newspaper The Baltimore Banner.
Reporting in Baltimore since 1837, The Baltimore Sun reports daily local, national, and international news.
One of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, The New York Times reports broadly on domestic and international news.
The Wall Street Journal, founded in 1889, provides extensive coverage of news, especially business and finance.
Newest Episode —
October 2025
In this archived episode of the Free to Bmore Podcast from 2019, we talk to social entrepreneur Chris Wilson as bravely shares his inspirational life story. Serving life in prison at age 17, he developed a Master Plan that led him to a life of purpose. Check out his book The Master Plan at the Pratt Library.
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