Cleveland Public Library Builds Solid Leadership Foundation to Launch its 150th Year

In 2019, Cleveland Public Library celebrates 150 years of service to the city of Cleveland. Under the leadership of Director Felton Thomas, Jr., the Library has rapidly evolved to meet the changing needs of the Cleveland community. But now, Thomas is looking forward and evaluating the role Cleveland Public Library plays in the fabric of a vibrant city. As such,…

Thirty Cleveland Students Build Super Car in Five Weeks

Thirty Cleveland high school students recently completed the challenge to build a Factory Five GTM Super Car in five weeks. This project, which was made possible by a partnership formed by Cleveland Metropolitan School District, Cleveland Public Library, Cuyahoga Community College, and Experience Aviation, invited students from Max S. Hayes High School, Davis Aerospace & Maritime High School, and Garrett…

Vargas on Immigration, Citizenship, and American Identity

“The last time I was in Cleveland, I was scared,” José Antonio Vargas admitted during his October 13 appearance at Cleveland Public Library. He was referring to his previous visit to the city a decade ago, when he was covering Hillary Clinton’s campaign—and worried that her secret service agents would discover he was an undocumented immigrant. “Now, my name is…

Writers & Readers Presents Susan Orlean on Saturday, Nov 10

Susan Orlean The author of Saturday Night, The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup, Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend, and The Orchid Thief (which became an Academy Award-winning film), describes her Cleveland childhood as “happy and uneventful…back when the Indians were still a lousy team.” Studying literature and history, she dreamt of writing long stories about interesting things but…

Melissa Sweet on Writing, Ideas, and Creative Conviction 

When Melissa Sweet accepted the 2018 Sugarman Award at a special ceremony at Cleveland Public Library on September 20, she held it up and said, “This award reminds me of icicles coming off my house in Maine.” It was just the sort of image one might expect from the author of a children’s biography about E.B. White—it celebrates the beauty of language while conjuring a specific place.     Prior to the ceremony, Sweet, who received the Norman A. Sugarman Children’s Biography Award for Some…

Octavofest 2018

Join us in celebrating our region’s active arts community of book and paper innovators and our magnificent library and museum collections of fine and rare books. Learn from artists and book lovers about Northeast Ohio’s rich resources and the exciting world of contemporary book and paper arts. All programs are free and open to the public. Visit octavofest.com for more…