Celebrate Hispanic Heritage at Cleveland Public Library
Enjoy a film screening, heritage scanning day, and myriad branch events recognizing Hispanic Heritage Month!
Gold Star Father Khizr Khan, Book Signing
His family’s story of immigration, hope, struggle, achievement, and loss illustrates both the American Dream and its tarnished reality. Join Khizr Khan for this book signing, Tuesday, September 17.
CLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY SPECIAL BOARD MEETING August 29, 2019 Trustees Room Louis Stokes Wing 12:00 Noon AGENDA Oath of Office for Reappointment of Alice G. Butts Motion to Temporarily Suspend the Regulations Resolution to Engage Jaros Strategy LLC for Capital Fundraising Consulting Services (EXHIBIT 1) Resolution to Approve the Use of Lockwood Thompson Endowment Funds for Travel (EXHIBIT 2)…
In celebration of our 150th anniversary, the Cleveland Browns have gifted the Cleveland Public Library Foundation with free pre-season tickets to the Thursday, August 29th game versus the Detroit Lions. To receive two complimentary tickets* to the game, simply take the Browns’ #Give10Pledge by pledging to volunteer to read to a child for at least 10 hours this year. For…
Richard and Phyllis O’Connell met while working at Cleveland Public Library nearly 60 years ago, marking the early stages of a lifelong love affair with libraries—and each other. When Richard O’Connell and Phyllis Dripan met as employees of Cleveland Public Library in the early 1960s, it wasn’t love at first sight. In fact, Phyllis was more focused on Richard’s strange snack of choice in the…
For eleven-year-old Lila Gibson, who loves libraries, swimming, and beach, the Edgewater BookBox is a book-filled utopia. Last summer, Lila Gibson was at Edgewater Beach with her mother when she came across a pleasant surprise: a miniature library right on the shore of Lake Erie. “I saw it and said, ‘Hey, it’s a library at the beach!’” she remembers. “Wow.” Lila, who was ten at…
Cleveland Public Library’s Writers & Readers series returns on September 24 to welcome broadcast journalist Soledad O’Brien in conversation with rapper and political activist Michael “Killer Mike” Render. The event, which is part of the Library’s 150th anniversary celebration, also highlights a new mission for the Writers & Readers series: to bring together authors, performers, journalists, activists, and educators to…
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month Registration Author Gabby Rivera believes it’s vital to encourage people of all backgrounds to create, daydream, and tell their own stories—and in so doing, open a radical space for creativity. As a queer, Latinx, millennial woman, she strives to be a thoughtful ally for others, she confronts privilege and power, and she asks difficult questions: What…
