Does anyone know anything about the blue signs between Peddler's Village and Bojangle's showing a person reading? It is similar to one of those blue hospital traffic signs. My husband saw it and wondered if we were getting a small library, but all we could find in the vicinity of the sign was that thrift store at the back of Peddler's Village. Does anyone know anything about it?
Yeah, the library is combined with the ministries or something like that, and we went there to go to the library and it is never open. Just on Saturdays and 2 nites a week. What kind of a library is that? Guess I will stick with Smithfield library.
Considering this library is run by volunteers be fortunate what they do offer or go help donate your time so they can open when you feel they should be... :cheers::cheers: They do the best they can with what they have and no funding...
Nah, there ain't no issues, Smithfield is just as close. But yes, for those who need a library on Saturdays, there is no question of the good these volunteers do. Hopefully one day funding will come for the library.
I remember seeing something about the 40/42 library association having a meeting on October 20th(?) at the Pizza Inn. They are looking for volunteers, etc. Maybe someone in the know can verify this information and expand on it. Libraries are always a good thing to have in a neighborhood.
library yes, volunteers are always welcome. help is needed soliciting for book donations, organizing/tagging new books, setting up the displays and generally answering patron questions. if you'd like to volunteer just drop by on saturdays and fill out a sheet. and if you have any books you're getting rid of forget about goodwill or craigslist - PLEASE drop them off and get a tax deduction too!!!!
Thanks for all the info. We have a ton of books we really should get rid of -- great idea to donate them there.
Blue and white are prettier, but the Chamber office preferred the green or brown that is becoming the subdued standard for library signs. I'm color blind, but I thought I saw green.
Cleveland Library-50,000+ books/videos already at 40/42 in 14 months Cleveland Library has more than 50,000 books and videos on the property, including donations from libraries and publishers around the world; some titles, which are only found behind locks in rare book sections, if they are available in North Carolina at all. Cleveland Library in its 14 months has more items in its collection than Mary Duncan Public Library, Benson, which advertises 25,000 items cataloged; Kenly Public Library, Kenly, which advertises 16,943 cataloged or 17,743 items; James Bryan Creech Public Library in Four Oaks which advertises 14,100 items; Johnston’s Bookmobile, which advertises 2,000 or so items; Princeton Public Library listed their space at 100 sq. ft., no number available; and Johnston County Heritage Center, Smithfield, no number available. Cleveland’s volunteer crew has simply cut 81 years off book acquisition. Review the local history as Cleveland Library's 14-month old collection size becomes equal to Clayton's 82-year old collection size. Hocutt-Ellington Memorial Library, Clayton, was started when the Women's Club put out a call for book donations in 1927, while Cleveland asked for book donation's on August 4, 2008. Clayton received 600 books and opened, while Cleveland had an initial 5,000 books shelved 2 weeks later. By 2009, Clayton held over 61,000 books and 2,400 books on tape, an 81-year net growth of 14 books per week. Cleveland has more than 40,000 books and videos bar coded with 10-20,000 waiting for volunteers to label. We have been receiving nearly 1,000 per week. Our patron survey told us to pull all duplicates and keep them for an expansion program, which can go different directions. While our circulation is only a couple hundred weekly, it makes sense to increase titles, rather than copies. Once we pass three copies, we sell the extras and hope to get enough money to buy more books, library cards, and labels.
Cleveland Library-Free Library Card-VHS/DVD/CD/Audio Book loans-InterLibrary Loans Cleveland Library expanded its free library card area to include all North Carolina residents with a valid North Carolina Identification Card or Driver’s License, which definitely ignores the questions about the multiple ZIP codes in Cleveland and the short 1 mile distance to Wake County. . Wake County does not loan VHS/DVD/CD popular materials and Johnston charges for the loans, while Cleveland will offer the service free. A volunteer counted more than 1,500 titles in the movie section alone. Cleveland already announced the introduction of free, but limited, InterLibrary loans.
Cleveland Library-Environmental/Good Stewardship/Experiential/Educational/Challenging 49,994 of the first 50,000 books we received through donations were candidates for the landfill. Rather than bury them, filling the landfill, we chose to reuse them and share them with all our residents. Besides teaching our children a good environmental lesson, we are teaching them a lesson in good stewardship. A county librarian told me anyone building a library in this era needs to plan to spend $35 to add each book to the collection. Following that model, we would already have asked for and spent $1,750,000 of our taxpayers’ money acquiring our books. Experiential education opportunities exist as the young can learn why a book has a particular smell. Remember your great grandmother’s kitchen’s wood and coal burning stove, which warmed your bath water, cooked your food, and provided central heat and also added a certain smell to all the books. That smell has almost disappeared from our lives. They will be able to explore a book with its familiar title from their school’s reading list, but 120 pages long, published over 80 years ago and enjoyed worldwide, but without the full-color hard glossy this year’s new cover and its now quick read limit of 14 pages. How long did they wonder, if there was more to the story and without Paul Harvey or their local library, they might never have discovered “the rest of the story.” At the same time, we demonstrated the ability to deliver books to our shelves within 48 hours of the publisher’s release. Beside new books for our collection, we’ve been able to provide hundreds of free new books to libraries from the coast to the mountains. Both the volunteers and the patrons have a great opportunity to be influenced and influence the community as we build and share this collection. We have deliberately sought some books that looked and smelled unlike new books, but they have different messages and qualities that current books lack. Cleveland is building a life-long educational collection from children’s easy reads to doctoral level texts, from quilting and cook books to business and Bible, from a public library’s middle school reading level to graduate school, from the world’s greatest mysteries to romance, and from limericks to the world’s greatest paintings. 6,000 easy read and elementary age children's books were on the shelves last week, but we pulled 2,000 or so just to flip the bookcases, so the Baptist Men could add a single shelf to each, increasing our book display capacity. We hope to see Alison wave her magic wand, overcome the challenge, and get them put back this Saturday. This is a normal event as we continue to have the Baptist Men add shelves as the money and materials are donated.
Cleveland Library-No library for 262 years. It's about time, there are costs. From the foundation of the county until 2009 is a very long time to lack necessary and basic services that enable a human community to learn and grow and achieve. As a group of people with a common need and desire for our children’s future, even our own, we can band together and begin to build what is needed, or we can die without making any changes, influences, or progress. Our stated goal is to be the leading community resource for culture and life-long learning. To be what we and the community determines as necessary for this community, like all libraries, we need financing and volunteers. Wake County budgets $289,000 annually for library services to each 15,000 residents, similar to Cleveland’s population. Why of course a library needs money to operate. We acquire used Pentium 4 computers, because we don’t have donations to buy new ones. Fortunately, they will both run Microsoft Office Pro and Internet Explorer 8. Remember, if Wake or Johnston bought each of the titles in our collection new, they would still be considered used books after they were checked out for the first time. In all likelihood, we will not be able to get New York Times bestsellers donated until they approach one year old. Donations must be raised to purchase at least one copy of these high demand items in their first six months of distribution and ascent on the reading list and that would cost $3-12,000 annually. We still need money to buy the basic boards, nails, screws, primer and paints, more computers, library cards, various book bar codes and labels. We have purchasing discounts, better than some public taxpayer funded libraries, arranged with various library suppliers, but not for the lumber and hardware items. Cleveland Library requires a large number of volunteers, because its acquisition level has been 20 times greater per week than many other libraries. Without the 15-30,000 square foot of dedicated floor space recommended for a library with this size collection and serving this population, the library will struggle with growth and service challenges. Certain policies, used by colleges and government agencies, have been implemented to maximixe use of space, but they come at a cost to the volunteers who must handle more book moves and work in cramped quarters. The cost of the library is easily offset by the increased benefits to the community and frequently by a 20 to 1 ratio. The UNC-CH report to Pennsylvania on the values of libraries is available on our Internet site. The lack of a free library and computer in this era could have a life-long cost to our communities' children.
