Rebidding the cards delayed the order, which was made possible by a grant from Wal-Mart, Route 42, Cleveland Township, Garner.

Staff plans to increase shelving and add another 4,000 books in next 18 months.

Contest to run March 1-April 5, 2010.

Cleveland Library speeds up book sorting, labeling, and shelving as hundreds of volunteers start calling and driving from places like Greensboro, Fayetteville, and New Bern.

Cleveland Library at 70,000 books and movies in its collection is third largest collection in Johnston County. It is the fastest growing collection in N.C. It is the largest of the 6 independent libraries serving N.C. residents, although one is over 100 years old, charges subscriptions and for loans, and another is funded through the city and county.

Volunteers label and bar code all.

Western N.C. Church declares war on anything not King James.

With N.C.'s positive and legal ID requirements, Cleveland ignores township and county boundaries and starts issuing free cards to any North Carolina resident.

"Everything Edible" cookbook from the United Methodist Women of Elizabeth Church in Smithfield pushes collection over 700.

Aug. 4, 2009 and 1,000 books are still arriving weekly. We ran out of bar codes and had to stop labeling for 3 weeks.

As library fills, patrons decide to hold back assets and increase selection. Storeroom becomes first stop on Interlibrary loan trail.

Cleveland's 40,000 books give Township residents 4.4 books instead of Johnston's 1.7 per capita. We're on the way to increasing reading levels.

Three N.C. county systems report smaller movie collections than the younger independent Cleveland Library. Wake doesn't offer movies and Johnston has been charging for them.

Volunteers pull books to start adding spine labels. This is expected to take 90 days. Patrons wanted large collection of paperbacks to read in the bath, or take to the beach and other vacation spots. Library makes the commitment to their wishes.

Many U.S. libraries will now share their colelctions with Cleveland card holders. Just released books will not be available. Audio and video materials not generally available. Loan time may be limited to 7 days.