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Cleveland Public Library chosen to expand national digital collection

By Grant Segall ● Arts & Culture ● April 13, 2026

CPL is partnering with the Digital Public Library of America to improve and expand an online archive of more than 50 million items.

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GLAAWC celebrates 8th Annual Writers Conference; launches 1st stream for Columbus, Detroit

By Faith Boone ● Arts & Culture ● October 13, 2025

Brought together by GLAAWC (pronounced “glossy”), the 8th Annual Great Lakes African American Writers Conference was a day filled with opportunities to purchase books, network, practice your writing and hear from award-winning writers.

Capturing treasures: Cleveland Public Library wins top chess collection and other gifts

By Grant Segall ● Arts & Culture ● June 10, 2025

At a centennial celebration for Cleveland Main Library on May 10, officials announced several major gifts, including the bulk of what New in Chess magazine once called “the finest collection in the world.”

Cleveland Main Library and Linda Anne Eastman: A rare library and librarian

By Grant Segall ● Arts & Culture ● May 8, 2025

One hundred years ago, a pioneering librarian opened a new flagship for the pioneering Cleveland Public Library.

Cleveland Public Library ready to preserve history with massive news archive digitization

By Douglas J. Guth ● Education ● March 24, 2025

“If you can think of something that happened between the mid-1950s and 1990, it’s probably in there.”

Cleveland Silent Film Festival partners with Cleveland Public Library

By Kevin McLaughlin ● Arts & Culture ● March 11, 2025

Beginning on March 15, the Cleveland Public Library and the Cleveland Silent Film Festival & Colloquium (CSFF) will partner for a series of classic silent films to be shown at the main library downtown in honor of the branch’s 100th anniversary.

Cleveland Public Library opens new Martin Luther King Jr. Branch

By Unity Powell ● Arts & Culture ● February 11, 2025

Civil rights leaders, library system and city officials, and the public were invited to attend the late January ribbon cutting ceremony. The expanded branch is designed to be more accessible while expanding community programming.

Libraries and Democracy: A Conversation with American Library Association President Cindy Hohl

By Chris Mosby ● September 25, 2024

Pride in the CLE returns to downtown on Saturday, June 4th

By Tricia Chaves ● Social Equity ● June 2, 2022

True to its grassroots ideal that Pride is not a moment but a movement, Pride in the CLE begins at noon this Saturday, with a march in downtown Cleveland followed by a festival on Malls B and C.

Cuyahoga County partners with Digital C to expand internet coverage in Central as part of surge

By Conor Morris & Karin Connelly Rice ● Development ● September 13, 2021

Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish announced a major project last week to expand wireless internet access to approximately 70% of Cleveland’s Central neighborhood, and provide Internet equipment to 500 of 2,500 households. He called it part of a broader effort to revitalize Cleveland’s urban core.