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Main Library Louis Stokes Wing 6th Floor 525 Superior Avenue Cleveland, OH 44114 216.623.2880 map.collection@cpl.org Contact: Olivia Hoge About the Department Map Collection’s holdings are worldwide in scope and include a variety of formats from sheet maps, charts, relief maps, atlases, gazetteers and globes. Beginning with a donation of 122 maps by Library trustee John G. White in 1884, the…
Thank you to the Cleveland Public Library for the invitation to participate in this very special day. Cleveland Public Library has always been a giant force for good in Cleveland, with a rich history of 150 years. It lives its moniker of “The People’s University” with a strong and daily commitment to provide a living, breathing space of learning for…
Nearly a century ago, the famed Cleveland architecture firm Walker and Weeks constructed a building in a modified English Tudor style to serve as Cleveland Public Library’s West Park Branch. The building featured an elegant façade with red brick, stone trim, and a slate roof, while the interior offered high ceilings and tall, graceful windows. In the decades since its…
A bronze walrus statue stands outside Cleveland Public Library’s Eastman Branch at W. 116th and Lorain Avenue. Known affectionately as “Wally,” the sculpture has presided over Eastman since 1980, the year the building opened, and bears an excerpt from “The Walrus and the Carpenter” by Lewis Carroll: ‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said, ‘To talk of many things: Of…
As a child growing up in Cleveland, Cella Borgia played video games to bond with her father. In the process, she discovered a love of gaming that persisted into adulthood. Gaming as an adult, however, was a different experience. Gone were the days of gathering with childhood friends to play in the same room—adult gamers, by comparison, were relatively isolated. That’s why Cella and her partner, Keven Barrera, decided to start…
As a child growing up in Cleveland, Cella Borgia played video games to bond with her father. In the process, she discovered a love of gaming that persisted into adulthood. Gaming as an adult, however, was a different experience. Gone were the days of gathering with childhood friends to play in the same room—adult gamers, by comparison, were relatively isolated. That’s why Cella and her partner, Keven Barrera, decided to start…