Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, 1989-2015 - Library of the Future, 1989-1999 - Information Revolution
In the 1990s the World Wide Web changed the information landscape. The Charlotte Mecklenburg Library seized the opportunities it offered.
Building regional libraries required a patron in the community, a person or institution whose support made possible a bigger, more fully equipped building than the county could have funded. What, then, of the communities such as West Charlotte, which lacked such resources? The West and West Boulevard branches had served the largely African American community since 1962 and 1985, respectively.
Independence Regional Library
Building on the success of Morrison Regional, the library moved in 1991 to add a regional library in the northern end of the county, but the process did not proceed as smoothly. First, although a developer had offered 2.8 acres at Sam Furr Rd.
Morrison Regional Library, completed in 1991,was the first regional library in the Charlotte Mecklenburg system.