We Need You as a Volunteer! You can help make 2024 a wonderful year! Join a great group of people as we support our community library. FoL is looking for volunteers for a number of positions. Please fill out our Volunteer Form Here and let us know which position is of interest. Â Etsy Store…
Sewing & Mending Repair Event with WNC Repair CafĂ© March 14 from 4-7pm The Black Mountain Library is thrilled to join other Buncombe County library branches and host our first WNC Repair sewing and mending repair event this month! Join us at this collaborative event on March 14 from 4:00-7:00 pm in the Community Room…
Book Club Re-Launch We are excited to announce Book Club is BAAACK! We will have a welcome gathering in the Community Room of the Black Mountain Public Library on Tuesday, March 12 at 6:30pm. We’ll decide on selections for the year and distribute copies of the One Book, One Buncombe novel, The Violin Conspiracy by…
We Need You as a Volunteer! You can help make 2024 a wonderful year! Join a great group of people as we support our community library. FoL is looking for volunteers for a number of positions. Please fill out our Volunteer Form Here and let us know which position is of interest.  Assistant to…
February Volunteer of the Month Ron Marcello grew up in northern New Jersey, spent a short time as a hippie in California, and settled in Ohio joining the fire department there in 1975. He retired from the fire department in 2002 at the rank of Captain. During his time in Dayton, he met and married…
Seed Library to open on February 16 The Black Mountain Booms Seed Lending Library will open for the season on Friday, February 16. Located towards the libraryâs rear entrance, the Seed Library, is FREE and open to all. We will offer an assortment of seeds plus âstarter kitsâ while supplies last. New to the program? Learn…
Welcome Our New Librarian! Tammy Young is no stranger to the Swannanoa Valley. She has been a resident since she was approximately 2 years old with a couple of stints in Stanly County, North Carolina and Cheyenne, Wyoming. Tammy joined the Buncombe County Public Library System as a substitute approximately 12 years ago. Prior to…
Sewing & Mending Repair Event with WNC Repair CafĂ©, March 14 from 4-7pm The Black Mountain Library is thrilled to join other Buncombe County library branches and host our first WNC Repair sewing and mending repair event this March! Join us at this collaborative event on March 14 from 4:00-7:00 pm in the Community Room…
Happy New Year from your Black Mountain Library Staff! Happy New Year to one and all. We hope you read more in 2024! What are your reading goals for 2024? Here are our staff reading goals this year: Laura: My goal is to read a dozen local authors that are new to me, poets included. Michelle: My goal…
January Volunteers of the Month Girl Scouts save the backs of Friends of the Library members (literally!) every time we have a book sale. What would we do without them? That’s why the Girl Scouts of Troop 2498 are Volunteers of the Month for January. Each week, FOL members store boxes of books in the…