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CLEVNET is a library consortium headquartered at Cleveland Public Library.It was founded in 1982 and includes over 40 public library systems in northeast Ohio. CLEVNET provides access to more than 12 million titles of books, movies, music and e-books.
The Cleveland Public Library is a public library system in Cleveland, Ohio.Founded in 1869, it had a circulation of 3.5 million items in 2020. It operates the Main Library on Superior Avenue in downtown Cleveland, 27 branches throughout the city, a mobile library, a Public Administration Library in City Hall, and the Ohio Library for the Blind and Physically Disabled.
OverDrive, Inc. is a worldwide digital distributor of ebooks, audiobooks, online magazines and streaming video titles. The company provides digital rights management and download fulfillment services for publishers, public libraries, K–12 schools, colleges, universities, corporations, legal industries, and formerly retailers.
John Griswold White began donating books to the Cleveland Public Library in 1885, presenting William H. Brett with 122 maps and four books. By 1913, the number had reached 25.000. It was that same year in 1913 the Cleveland Public Library moved to the Kinney-Levan building on upper Euclid Avenue.
In 2003, Cuyahoga County Public Library and the Cleveland Public Library collaborated to create the Greater Access Library Card. The card allows customers of either library and the libraries in the CLEVNET network to take out books from both systems without having to carry more than one library card.
Bookshelf at the Cleveland Public Library's John G. White Special Collection The following is a bibliography of Cleveland , Ohio . It includes selected publications specifically about the city, Cuyahoga County , and the Greater Cleveland Metropolitan Area .
The three significant public chess libraries are: The John G. White Chess and Checkers Collection at Cleveland Public Library has the largest chess and draughts library in the world, with over 32,000 chess books and over 6,000 bound volumes of chess periodicals."
Cleveland Public Library: A copy of the Quran kept in the John Griswold White collection of the Cleveland Public Library bears a handwritten note inside that it was bound in human skin. The library was cautious about publicising the book due to Islamic taboos around body modification. In 2024, peptide mass fingerprinting confirmed it to be ...