In 1946, the Charlotte Center of The University of North Carolina was founded.  Initially offering classes in the evenings to returning war veterans, its library shared its facilities, book collection and staff with Central High School, its host institution.  The site of Central High School is now the location of Central Piedmont Community College.

By the time Charlotte College was accredited as a two-year junior college by the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools in December 1957, it had begun a daytime program and hired its first full-time librarian Mozelle S. Scherger, though it still shared its facilities with Central High School.  Plans for expansion of the junior college into a four-year college required that the library work to expand its collections and staffing to meet the minimum basic requirements for an academic library.  Plans were made to find a new location for the College that would accommodate its growing needs.

While the initial collection was just a handful of books, the Charlotte College library kept a record of its purchases and acquisitions through what is known as an Accession Book.  As titles were purchased and received by library staff, each was recorded in this book in the order it was received.  Thanks to those records, we know that the first volume acquired by the Library was Preface to Philosophy: Book of Readings, by Ross Earle Hoople, Raymond Frank Piper and William Pearson Tolley. New York: Macmillan, 1946.

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