The Library is closed on Monday, July 4 in observance of Independence Day.
“The Braille Name Game” “The Braille Name Game” is a learning activity to help raise awareness about braille, and encourage and promote the importance of braille literacy for people who are blind or visually impaired. Players can use the braille alphabet to fill in the braille cells to spell their name, and then type the matching letter below the braille…
Enjoy a slideshow through time and watch the evolution of Cleveland Public Library’s cutting edge use of technology. From typewritten cataloging and “high-tech” electric erasers at the beginning of the 20th Century to the first computerized online Library Catalog in the 1980s. [slideshow_deploy id=’11603′]
Main LibraryLouis Stokes Wing4th Floor525 Superior AvenueCleveland, OH 44114216.623.2871Photos@cpl.org Contact: Brian Meggitt With more than 1.3 million photographs, the Photograph Collection is a tremendous resource for historians, film and video professionals, genealogists, sports enthusiasts, fashion designers and students of documentary history. Materials in the Collection are primarily in black and white and cover the period of the 1850s through the 1980s.…
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…
It’s a numbers game. From the 2020 Census to the presidential election, everything is about the numbers. On Saturday, September 26, Cleveland Public Library is digging into the story behind the numbers when Cathy O’Neil kicks off our Authors on Democracy virtual series. O’Neil, who wrote Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, will speak…
