“Until everyone has these tools, we have a lot of work to do.”
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.
— T.S. Eliot
WHY LIBRARIES MATTER
There are as many library stories as there are people who use libraries—and in Mecklenburg County, that’s two-thirds of the population in the last year.
Diverse voices share why Charlotte Mecklenburg Library is essential in our community:
Shared Investment Multiplies Impact
With funding from Google Fiber, new partnership brings Wi-Fi to neighbors experiencing homelessness
Living Archive will Document Local Impact of Covid-19 on Under-Represented Communities
“an important resource as we work toward a more equitable future”
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
Nationally and internationally, research has proven the economic, educational and social value of libraries.
Want to defend democracy? Start with your public library.
Opinion by Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Washington Post
Our Library helps many in Mecklenburg. There’s a new opportunity to support it.
Amy Hawn Nelson and Ricky Woods
The Charlotte Observer
Public Libraries’ Novel Response to a Novel Virus
Deborah Fallows
The Atlantic
ULC Libraries Use 3-D Printers to Help Fight COVID-19
C. Rogers
Urban Libraries Council
Palaces for the people: why libraries are more than just books
Eric Klinenberg
The Guardian
Charlotte’s Knight
Vanessa Infanzon
SouthPark Magazine
Charlotte’s New Library – An Investment In What We Ought To Be
Tommy Tomlinson
WFAE
