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Cleveland Library Welcome to North Carolina's Largest Private Library Collection! Built with all volunteers and donations. Volunteer to build your home town library. Cleveland Library is a free to the public library that operates as an educational program of Basic Needs Ministry, a 501(c)(3) non-profit - public charity. With more than 77,000 items in its collection, Cleveland Library has Johnston's second largest book and movie collection available to the public and the only one directly serving subdivision residents in an unincorporated area. From 2003-2008, BNM gave books to North Carolina's public schools, jails, and prisons. Starting in 2008, books were transferred to Cleveland Library, which expanded the giving to Partnership for Children of Johnston County and started a program of giving new books to libraries across the state. This photo shows a volunteer dwarfed by one week's additions to the collection; cases of new books from Scholastic for the children's library and many from Durham County Library for the adults' library. The collection grows by 900-1,000 books weekly. The children's library has 14,000 books and is developing under the guidance of a librarian trained by UNC-CH. Open: Mondays and Thursdays 6 p.m.-9 p.m. and Saturdays 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Closed State holidays and when community colleges/schools close for bad weather Mission Statement To be the leading community resource for culture and life-long learning. To best serve the community, we do not sell books from the collection. WHERE? in the World is Cleveland Library? Start in the middle of 40/42. Library is West on 42 3 gas stations and a Bojangle's. Look in backyard. Thank you, Disney Corporation, for encouraging 1 million volunteers. Thank you, Disney volunteers, all 900 of you, who came and did a year's work in 8 weeks. The community has been blessed by your service as you made clothing, food, and books available. Achievements Cleveland Library launched a 120,000 book goal, value $4.2 million, planned 15-year acquisition project without tax dollars 21 months later it's the county's 2rd largest collection with 76,000+ books and videos - 14,000 children's books (numbers growing weekly) Cleveland Township has 4.7 books per resident plus the county's 1.7 for a total of 6.4 Cleveland is the only unincorporated area in the state to have its own independent library Cleveland Library provides service to Cleveland's 15,000 residents and others without tax dollars Wake spends $289,000 annually to provide services to 15,000 residents and Clayton budgets $448,000 Cleveland Library seeks 22 Pentium 4 or newer computers to add to its public computer lab Cleveland Library needs a 20,000 sq. ft. library building. - Have one to spare?

How do you decide what to read? What do you want to read? Just dare to pick out a book and read. By the way, click on the book covers to discover more about our new books. The hot Johnston County cookbook this year is Everything Edible from the United Methodist Women of Elizabeth Church in Smithfield. It joins our collection of 700 cookbooks and adds another inch or so to our waistlines, with great pleasure. Check it out or buy it from the church. Religous Fiction Bestseller - The Shack God is what? Who? Really. Read our three books from New South and share our country's heritage from the eyes of youth. Start with the watermelon and read about the racial standards of Alabama in the 1940s. Continue with Cracker, the boy from Florida, who went to Alabama for the summer and got himself a mule. Now go west to the plains and live with Red Squirrel as he matures from daydreamer to warrior, courts Pale Moon, and ends with a snake and eagle. Yellow Watermelon Cracker's Mule Little Brother Real Snake Our hot summer of 2009 read from the New York Times bestseller list - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows - Highly recommended by Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. Reread - Dr. Spencer Johnson's best selling parable lowers our stress and refocuses our thinking as we learn about the patterns and changes that can happen to block and change the established flow of our lives. A good read for people who don't plan ahead for challenges. Highly recommended by Dave Ramsey, who teaches people how to be debt free: listen mornings on Raleigh's WPTF-AM 680. NEW Release from Hong Kong-Based Author Jessica Bellas - Her friends enjoyed this U.S. liberal Democrat's life in the Orient from her regular E-mails. They ranged from her work with the university to manufacturing experiences to politics and her strength of drinking and making news with her dog. Then came the book. Political Best Seller - Liberty and Tyranny   Can basic pine board shelving hold a library? Dare to start a community library.

We are members of:
American Library Association - Bibliographical Center for Research - (BCR) - Greater Cleveland Chamber of Commerce - N.C. Center for Nonprofits - North Carolina Library Association

Federal EIN 45-0503343, I.R.S. 501(c)(3) Non-Profit - A Public Charity - N.C. Charitable Solicitations License #SL003225 - Financial information about this organization and a copy of its license are available from the State Solicitation Licensing Branch at 919-807-2214. The license is not an endorsement by the state.