Welcome to Charlotte Mecklenburg Library. It's our mission to improve lives and build a stronger community.

Charlotte Mecklenburg Library is often recognized for its efforts both locally and nationally, in the form of awards and other honors. In addition, Library employees are often recognized as experts in their field, and are invited to share that expertise in various ways such presentations and publications. These efforts support the Library's role as essential leader. 

Below are previous awards received by the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library.

Through embracing innovation as an organizational strategy and process, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library is creating a culture where experimentation is encouraged, rewarded, and elevated across the library system.

Charlotte Mecklenburg Library offers a variety of resources and programs for the Charlotte writing community. Whether you are interested in joining a writing group, self-publishing your book or attending a panel discussion—we have something for you! The Carolina Author Collection is a special collection for authors living in and around Mecklenburg County including nearby South Carolina counties.

​As part of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library’s Community Media Strategy, and in partnership with the Charlotte Unconventional Film School, we are excited to announce Make-a-Movie workshops. This year there are five different program offerings held at Sugar Creek Library during January and February. Read below for more information on dates and locations.
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Serving up ways the Library can help keep your 2019 resolutions

The location’s automated material handling system processes thousands of books each day.

The workshops feature prominent instructors like Mike Collins, Tommy Tomlinson and a Dances With Wolves crewmember

Times Square may have dropped the ball, but we haven’t. Read in the New Year with these young adult books about new beginnings and resolutions.