From August 4, 2008 until May 2011, community volunteers came to Cleveland Library, 5533 N.C. HWY 42 W, Garner, to build shelving ensuring residents there would be a place to display books in the Cleveland area. Most shelves were built without a photographer to record the efforts. A visitor using a camera phone caught Ken Creech, the team leader for the past year, with one of his helpers, Mike Angyal taking a lunch break. Each of the library's new bookcases is 4' wide and 8' high and together the 36 cases can hold 35,000-70,000 books that have been stored in boxes after initial processing. Lacking an extra 1,000 sq. ft. for aisles, the library will double flat stack the books like Edward McKay's Book Store. Community volunteers are needed to load the shelves and make these books available to the community's readers.

To meet the demand of the current number of children and to prepare for the next ten year's projected increase, the library is looking for donors to add 24,000 more children's books. Volunteers and book donations are accepted at the library on Mondays 1-9 p.m.; Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays 9-5. Checks to purchase books and labels may be mailed to Friends of Cleveland Library, 5533 N.C. HWY 42 W STE D96, Garner, NC 27529 or deposited at any Four Oaks Bank location. Volunteers are needed in the computer lab to work on the spine labels for all the books being added to the collection.

The adult hard cover fiction collection in the bookmobile was thinned of duplicates and is being filled with new titles. Volunteers are needed to process and file the books. As these are placed in proper library order, they are freeing shelves for more adult nonfiction. The duplicate will need to be recorded for library records. Should there be sufficient duplicates, other locations may be located to make books more easily available in the community.

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Construction crew - Ken Creech and Mike Angyal.

Photos of the bookcases as set in place.

Boxes of books waiting to be moved and unloaded.

The children's library is growing from 17,000 to 40,000 books.