October 27, 200816 yr They both ranked the Cuyahoga County system If you look at the wlwt article, they confuse "cleveland" with "cuyahoga county".
October 27, 200816 yr good for Ohio... a literate population is an innovative and productive population
February 25, 200916 yr Yet another library ranking system, and yet another set of wins for Ohio: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6635796.html Five star libraries (Ohio has 14 out of 85): Cleveland Public Library Columbus Metropolitan Library Akron-Summit Cnty Public Library Cleveland Heights-University Heights PL Shaker Heights Public Library Upper Arlington Public Library Worthington Public Library Way Public Library (Perrysburg) Wickliffe Public Library New Carlisle Public Library Perry Public Library Centerburg Public Library Grand Valley Public Library (Orwell) Wornstaff Memorial Public Library (Ashley) There are also several representatives on the 4 and 3 star lists, to give Ohio 31 out of 256 "starred" libraries.: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6635248.html
February 26, 200916 yr good for Ohio... a literate population is an innovative and productive population. It's too bad that ours also happens to be our best export.
February 27, 200916 yr Yet another library ranking system, and yet another set of wins for Ohio: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6635796.html Wornstaff Memorial Public Library (Ashley) There are also several representatives on the 4 and 3 star lists, to give Ohio 31 out of 256 "starred" libraries.: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6635248.html Ashley is a tiny town, but a buddy of mine from there always said the library was cool. When he was a kid, he'd go there and read a book that broke down every Black Sabbath song and came up with meanings for them.
July 5, 200915 yr Cuyahoga County Library Ranked No. 1 POSTED: 12:48 pm EDT July 3, 2009 UPDATED: 1:20 pm EDT July 3, 2009 CLEVELAND -- Cuyahoga County Public Library has been ranked as No. 1 by the Hennen's American Public Library Ratings. The local library system is ranked No. 1 among the nation's libraries that serve more than 500,000. ... More at: http://www.newsnet5.com/news/19940057/detail.html
December 10, 20204 yr Library Journal agrees with Hennen's... "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
December 10, 20204 yr ^I couldn't find the 2020 data, but I did find the 2019 raw data. Of the big library systems (the largest category, which is $30M or more, here is the list. Interestingly NY public--branch libraries got ZERO stars. The 2 big CLE systems (CPL and Cuyahoga) and Cincinnati all got five stars. Columbus got 4. Boston, LA, Houston, San Diego, and many more got zero stars. Very last on the list was Detroit. https://www.libraryjournal.com/?page=americas-star-libraries-2019
December 10, 20204 yr I really wish we could get all of the library systems into the county to merge. Really all the the systems are excellent, so there is no argument of "why should we merge with them to support them" like you get with cities merging. I really don't get the argument against. There is so many overhead costs that could be cut out. Libraries are really the low hanging fruit of regionalism. A few years ago we had a big campaign in Shaker to vote no on a tax increase for the library system. The mayor and the city even campaigned for the no vote. The argument wasn't that the library didn't need or deserve our support, but that we could be better served by merging with Cuyahoga County (the main issue being the need for millions of dollars in repairs on the main library building). The vote ended up being razor thin in support of the tax increase. It was really disappointing...
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