Sustainable Cleveland 2019: Building an Economic Engine
to Empower a Green City on a Blue Lake
Sustainable Cleveland 2019:
Building an Economic Engine
to Empower a Green City on a Blue Lake
From August 12 -14, Mayor Frank G. Jackson hosted an appreciative inquiry (AI) summit, bringing together a diverse group of people vested in and dedicated to Cleveland to use their vast knowledge and imagination to create an action plan for building a green economy for Cleveland’s future. Learn more at the city's website and view titles discussed at the Summit.
The Cleveland Public Library is pleased to announce a new podcast archive page on the Fine Arts and Special Collections Department portion of our site. This page features MP3 files for most of the "Music at Main" events that have been held. The next live event will take place this Saturday, August 8, 2009 at 2PM and will be held out in the Eastman Reading Garden. The library will host the Kent Shindig All-Stars (featuring some of the finest traditional musicians in northeast Ohio) performing old-time music. See the Fine Arts and Special Collections blog for more information.
Cleveland Public Library would like to publicize a new public health initiative called the Black Health Empowerment Project (BHEP). Now entering its fifth year, BHEP is an obesity awareness and health promotion tour designed to educate African Americans about the health risks associated with obesity.
| We are very thankful for the overwhelming support given by Ohioans for libraries across the state. In an effort to keep you informed, we will post updates about the budget and how it will affect the Cleveland Public Library on a regular basis. |  |
Where We Are and Where We're Going
Library to be Closed on Sundays in Response to the State's Funding Cuts (8/4/2009)
Realigning the Budget in Response to the State’s Funding Cuts (7/21/2009)
In these difficult economic times, any small business would like to make itself more successful and profitable. One such way is by using competitive intelligence. Competitive intelligence involves looking at your business in relation to its competitors, industry, and the general environment in order to make better informed decisions. While competitive intelligence is most commonly used by Fortune 500 companies, it is equally beneficial for small businesses. Small business owners may think that they cannot afford competitive intelligence; however, this is not true. Any small business owner can perform some basic, beneficial research using freely available Cleveland Public Library (CPL) resources.
For the last several years, the term “regionalism” has been heard around Northeastern Ohio. With the economic downturn, it’s been heard more frequently and with more urgency. The idea behind regionalism is that by working cooperatively to provide services, local government agencies could realize more cost effective use of tax dollars.
The 31 CLEVNET libraries have already been working cooperatively across northern Ohio for 27 years. A recent study by respected economic analysts Driscoll & Fleeter shows that this kind of regional cooperation works, and works effectively. For every dollar spent by a member library for CLEVNET services, there was a $6.00 return on investment. This represents a collective cost savings of over $30 million dollars! While experiencing significant losses in funding at the local and state levels, membership in CLEVNET enables the member libraries to bring their customers superior library services though this efficient use of revenues.
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| Mark Erdman, ICA objects conservator, examines the Reader’s Column with Bernice Davis. (Photographs by Intermuseum Conservation Association.) |
“Reader’s Column” has welcomed visitors to the Fulton Branch for twenty-five years. The outdoor sculpture by Cleveland artist David E. Davis (1920-2002) is formed by a stainless steel base supporting a construction of painted red, black and white aluminum geometric forms at the top. Bernice Davis, wife of the late sculptor, explained that this work belongs to the artist’s Harmonic Grid series. From the early 1970s to1980s, Davis’ sculptures utilized a set of 52 different shapes derived from the rectangle form. Davis believed that self-imposed restrictions help an artist to stretch the creative imagination . He drew on this personal vocabulary of shapes like a language, pulling out elements for his sculpture designs. After 1983 his works include organic shapes along with the harmonic grid elements.
One of the many treasures in the Cleveland Public Library is the work of artist Ora Coltman. Born in Shelby, Ohio in 1858, he studied at the Art Students League in New York City and the Academie Julian in Paris. Coltman was a painter, sculptor, block printer, muralist, teacher, and writer. He kept a studio in Cleveland where has was a member of the Cleveland Society of Artists and Cleveland Printmakers. Exhibitions of his work took place at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio. He also created a mural for the Cleveland Public Library called Dominance of the City.