McCleary Timberland Library: CLOSED / CERRADO October 27 – January 31, 2023
The McCleary Timberland Library will be closing temporarily for remodeling. The library and bookdrop will be unavailable for any services including Expanded Access Hours. Your Timberland library card works interchangeably with other Timberland branches and you may return your items to any Timberland Library. Please have any items that you have placed on hold changed to the library you would like to visit. Items that have been placed on hold that are not picked up by the McCleary Library closure date will be taken to the Elma Library and will be available to pick up after November 1,at the Elma Timberland Library.
Services Provided:
Browsing, Bookings for computer use, Copy/scan/fax, Library Takeout by request
Expanded Access Hours
McCleary is the first Timberland Regional Library to pilot Expanded Access Hours (EAH). This program offers registered patrons access to the library in addition to staffed operating hours.
Ask staff at the McCleary Timberland Library about signing up.
About the Library
The current McCleary Library opened in 2003 as a result of a joint project of the City of McCleary, Timberland and the Friends of the McCleary Library. The current 2112 square foot building was formerly a video store which was remodeled and expanded to provide more space for materials, computers, and programs. The old building had been Timberland's smallest library at just over 600 square feet.
The City of McCleary contracted for library service from TRL in 1969 and annexed to the district in 1982. The McCleary library was closed December 1985 and the McCleary Book Nook was established. The Book Nook, which was run by volunteers, was not a full service library and served as a convenient access and referral point to the full range of TRL's resources and services. A full service library was reopened February 1988.
