Cleveland library named one of top 15

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

The Cleveland Public Library recently was named one of the top 15 libraries in the country by TravelSmart magazine, the nation's oldest consumer travel newsletter. The magazine partnered with the Americans for Libraries Council to profile libraries with travel destinations.

 

Mail information to Honored, c/o Metro Desk, Plain Dealer Plaza, 1801 Superior Ave., Cleveland 44114. Or fax to 216-999-6354. Please include your name, address, telephone number and a photograph.

 

That place rocks! I love it!

I've never been in it but it always looked pretty neat, I guess I'll have to check it out next time I'm in town.

So that explains my interest in that library!  :clap:

I believe Ohio spends more money on libraries than any other state, or at least they are way up there. Lakewood has a great library too, but the Cleveland library downtown branch is really fantastic. Beautiful grand interior, periodicals from all over the world, stacks and stacks of books, and the reading garden. It is way better than most university libraries.

 

The Cleveland Library also has a history of progressivism. The Cleveland library was the first library in the world where visitors could actually browse the books for themselves. There are other firsts too, but they escape me. 

Used to skip high school to spend days at the CPL. Actually got busted once for skipping, and had to justify to the principal that I'd learned more in the stacks than in any classroom of my high school.