Cleveland Public Library Celebrates the Construction of New Neighborhood Branches

The future of Cleveland Public Library is taking shape. Starting in June, the library will celebrate the beginning of construction on its neighborhood branches. It’s part of the Library’s 10-year plan to build or renovate branch libraries to improve the visitor experience. “We’re happy to fulfill our promise to the community,” said John Lang, Chief Operations Officer at Cleveland Public…

Empowering the Community at Jefferson Branch

If we could travel back in time to visit the Tremont neighborhood of 100 years ago, we’d find bustling streets filled with steel mill workers, other laborers, and a growing immigrant population. Within this vibrant community stood Cleveland Public Library’s Jefferson Branch, which opened in 1918 in a Carnegie conversion building—a space designed with the possibility of one day being…

Cleveland Public Library: Our Future Is Building

Cleveland Public Library will temporarily close three neighborhood branches, West Park, Woodland, and Jefferson to prepare for a revitalization project at end of day, Friday, April 2nd at 6 p.m. Fulfilling our promise to the community, it is the first phase of a 10-year plan to renovate or rebuild branch libraries to improve the user experience. The work reimagines the…