New Hanover County library opens new branch in Pleasure Island

CAROLINA BEACH, NC (WWAY) — New Hanover County Library will be holding an open house tomorrow at their new branch in Pleasure Island.

The branch location is at the Snow’s Cut Crossing Shopping Center in Carolina Beach.

Supervising Librarian Patricia Dew says the library opened Monday, but the celebration will happen Saturday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.

Dew says getting this new location up and running was a community effort.

“Our patrons asked how can they help us move to the new location, how could they volunteer and we said how about you help us move the books,” said Dew. “You can check them out from the old location, return them at the new location, so our patrons moved about 99 percent of the books.”

Dew says the location is in a 4,000 square foot facility which is almost four times as big as the library that was previously in the town.