If this
nation is to be wise as well as strong...then we need more new ideas for
more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. |
Steele Creek Library Association |
Make Your Tax-Deductible Donation Today! Views of the Building Exterior and Floor Plan
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Come visit YOUR library at
The
Steele Creek Library was
Library
Fund Drive raises $93,000.
Features of the 15,000 sq. ft. facility include:
Location: Web Site: Steele Creek Library web page Email: Steele Creek Library email Manager: Rhonda Pinkney
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Charles Brown, Director of Libraries for the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, and Elly Tomlinson, Steele Creek Library Manager, at the Donor Reception on August 6, 2004 |
Ribbon cutting on Opening Day, August 7, 2004
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Linda Blackwelder of the Steele Creek Library Association and Elly Tomlinson, Steele Creek Library Manager |
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Chris Graham of G4 Reality presents a check to Doug Youngblood, President of the Steele Creek Library Association. Chris had pledged to match donations made at the annual Steele Creek Residents Association meeting in February 2004 up to $1,000. The attendees came through, and between them and Chris, the Residents Association raised over $2,000 for the library fund that evening. Chris and Doug are standing in front of the pergola in the children's section during the library's construction. The pergola has stations for eight computers. |
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Tom Waters with Provident
Development, which developed Huntington Forest on Steele Creek Road, hands
Linda Blackwelder a $5,000 donation to the Steele Creek Library Fund. |
On Thursday February 19th, Alan Harrington of Crescent Resources, presented Linda Blackwelder with a check for $5,000 for the new Steele Creek Library Fund. Mr. Harrington thinks the additional enhancements of the new library will be an asset to the community. Crescent Resources is starting the development of "The Sanctuary" at Island Pointe on Lake Wylie. | ||||||||||
Make Your Tax-Deductible Donation Today! The Steele Creek Library Association met its goal to raise at least $100,000 in funds and in-kind donations for enhancements to the new Steele Creek branch library that included purchases of books, computer equipment, and other enhancements to the children's area; media equipment for meeting rooms; business references; and other improvements. It continues to disburse funds to the library as needs arise. |
HISTORY OF THE ASSOCIATION |
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The Steele Creek Library Association was formed in 1992 to encourage county officials to locate a new library in the Steele Creek community and to support the library's collections and programs. Because of growing population, the community needed a library closer than the one in Pineville. After many hours of meetings with county officials and a fund raiser, the new library opened in 1994 in temporary space in the Steele Creek Commons Shopping Center. Plans called for moving to a permanent location within ten years. |
We now are seeing the results of the hard work done by those early supporters. Our new Steele Creek Library opened in 2004 on Steele Creek Road (Hwy 160) near York Road (Hwy 49) in front of the new Southwest Middle School. The location is on the site of the old home of Dr. John Knox, who was a country doctor in Steele Creek from 1880 until his death in 1911. This home had a very large library. Dr. Knox had two sons that graduated from Davidson College and two daughters that graduated from Queens College, and all were avid readers. The new location couldn’t be more appropriate. |
Please support the library by donating to the Steele
Creek Gift Fund. Library staff will accept checks made out to "Steele
Creek Library." The library has a donation box at the Circulation Desk
for small cash donations. |
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If you have any questions about the Association, please contact us by email to libraryassociation@steelecreekresidents.org If you have questions about the Steele Creek Library, its services, or volunteering, contact the library by selecting Steele Creek Branch on the library's Contact a Local Branch page. |
Here are views of the front and back of the library building and a floor plan. (While the floor plan generally is correct, the final furniture layout does not match this plan.) Click on either image below for an enlargement. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view these PDF images. |
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Snapshots Click on the picture to see a page with snapshots of the library when it was under construction |
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Visit the Steele Creek Branch Library Page on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public Library Web Site. |
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Location of new library: Below is an aerial photograph taken in 2002 before the library was built. This view shows the intersection of Hwy 160/Steele Creek Road (generally running north/south) and Hwy 49/York Road (generally running northeast/southwest) in Lower Steele Creek. The large, odd-shaped building near the top of the photograph is Southwest Middle School. The rectangular plot between the school and Steele Creek Road is the site of the new Steele Creek Branch Library. The map in the upper left shows a blue rectangle at the location of the photograph within southwest Mecklenburg County. From Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
Senator JOHN F. KENNEDY, response to questionnaire, Saturday Review, October 29, 1960, p. 44 |
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