Your new Main Library will be an architecturally distinctive, state-of-the-art, technologically-advanced knowledge center. This 115,000 square foot facility is designed to welcome and celebrate the Charlotte Mecklenburg community, and it will feature indoor/outdoor spaces over five themed floors spiraling up to a skylight and rooftop terrace.
What's Inside?
Throughout the Library
Books, technology, digital resources, comfortable seating, meeting rooms
Multipurpose
Lower Level
Flexible space for programs and events, accommodates up to 300 people
Research and Reference
Level Three
Collections, soft seating, study carrels, meeting rooms, reference hub, community “living room”
Community
Level One
Dynamic grand lobby named Knight Hall, programming forum, popular collection, immersive theater, café
History and Genealogy
Level Four
Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room, two-story sunroom
Opportunity and Innovation
Level Two
Opportunity and career center, innovation lab, technology help center, new resident welcome center, digital visualization lab, multipurpose classroom, outdoor terrace
Readers and Writers
Level Five
Destination reading room, studio for writers and authors, large meeting room and balcony, outdoor terrace
