Business Manager Jim Teknipp and Director Steve Wood receive GOFA award in 2007.

Making Your Tax Dollars Count
The Heights Library was awarded the "Making Your Tax Dollars Count" award from the Auditor of State's office for their fiscal year 2005 audit. This is the most current FY award.

Fewer than five percent of all Ohio government agencies are eligible for the award based on the following criteria:

• The entity must complete and submit a Comprehensive Annual Finacial Report;
• There must be not findings or issues present in their most recent audit report;
• There must be no other financial concerns involving the entity.

Auditor Mary Taylor said," The community should be proud of their commitment to making sure that each tax dollar is spent appropriately."

Northern Ohio Live Award
The newly renovated Lee Road Library won in the category of Historic Preservation/Adaptive Reuse in 2007.

City of Cleveland Heights Award
Awarded the library its 2007 Community Improvement Award for the renovation, expansion and improvement to the Lee Road Library and Cultural Arts Center.

Hennen's American Public Library Ratings
Hennen's American Public Library Ratings, HAPLR (tm), attempt to identify the best public libraries in America. The HAPLR Index uses six input and nine output measures. The author added the scores for each library within a population category to develop a weighted score.

The HAPLR Index is similar to an ACT or SAT score with a theoretical minimum of 1 and a maximum of 1,000, although most libraries score between 260 and 730. Heights Library score: 875

LibraryPlace.com Libby Award
This award is presented to a library that makes an especially valuable contribution to the on-going success of the library community. Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public library was nominated and selected for implementing new & innovative programs, especially the unique online services offered to patrons to encourage involvement in the library. Services include online program registration for children, comprehensive and separate sites for teens. kids, and teachers/homeschoolers, a large Reader's Advisory section, book renewal and more.

LibrarySpot.com Site of the Month
LibrarySpot.com was created to break through the information overload of the Web and bring the best library and reference sites together with insightful editorial in one user-friendly spot. Sites featured on LibrarySpot.com are hand-selected and reviewed by their editorial team for their exceptional quality, content and utility.

Innovative Applications in Libraries
hand-picked list of unique Internet applications, services and databases provided solely by libraries. Two of our sites have been chosen to be included in this listing:

• Potamus Place (for kids)
• YAzine (for teens)