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Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen

by Sheryl Banks September 13, 2011

Tuesdays, September 13 to October 18, at 6 p.m. at the University Heights Branch of the Heights Library Film buffs and short story fans won’t want to miss “Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen,” a six-week course that will examine how three short stories were adapted into classic Hollywood films.  Discussions will include plot [...]

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Cedar-Coventry Author Series Spotlights Local Authors with National Appeal

by Sheryl Banks August 18, 2011

Cleveland Heights, Ohio—This fall, Appletree Books, the Coventry Village branch of the Heights Public Library System, and Mac’s Backs-Books on Coventry are teaming up to present an impressive series of talks by nationally acclaimed local authors Mary Doria Russell (Doc and The Sparrow), Emily Mitchell (The Last Summer of the World), and Catherine Gildiner (Too [...]

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Heights Libraries New Literacy PLAYroom Gets Young Children Ready to Read

by Sheryl Banks August 9, 2011

Cleveland Heights, Ohio—With the beginning of the school year just around the corner, parents, teachers, and kids are getting ready for another year of learning. And Heights Libraries Noble Neighborhood branch is helping get young children ready for kindergarten with its new preschool literacy playroom. Officially known as the PLAYroom (Preschool Literacy And You), it [...]

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University Heights Library Showing Free International Films All Summer

by Sheryl Banks July 15, 2011

University Heights— The University Heights branch of the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library is offering a smart alternative to the typical overpriced, and overwrought, summer blockbusters playing at your local multiplex: a free weekly international film festival. “The World in Your Neighborhood” film series features critically acclaimed foreign films that explore religion, politics, and other [...]

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Free Digital Music Service Comes to Heights Libraries

by Sheryl Banks July 14, 2011

Cleveland Heights, Ohio–Cleveland Heights-University Heights Libraries cardholders can now download free music MP3s through the Freegal music service. Freegal  is an online music source that offers access to hundreds of thousands of songs by a wide variety of artists in the Sony Music catalog. Sony’s catalog includes more than fifty labels, in genres ranging from [...]

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Heights Library Serves Up Summer Lunch and Learning

by Sheryl Banks May 27, 2011

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio–With school out for the summer, children and teens in the Heights who rely on free school lunches are facing a potentially hungry summer. But Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Libraries are ready to help by once again hosting the Cleveland Food Bank-sponsored free summer lunch program this summer at the Lee Road branch. [...]

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Heights Library Noble Neighborhood Branch Reopens after Seven-Month Renovation

by Sheryl Banks May 3, 2011

CLEVELAND, HEIGHTS, OHIO–On Monday, May 23, 2011, the Noble Neighborhood branch of the Cleveland Heights-University Heights  (Heights) Public Library will reopen after a seven-month, $1 million renovation. But before the library reopens for business, it will host a grand reopening celebration on Sunday, May 15, 2011, from 2 to 4 p.m., to invite Heights residents [...]

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Heights Librarian Honored with Prestigious Grant Award

by Sheryl Banks April 21, 2011

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OHIO–At the April 8, 2011, Virginia Hamilton Conference at Kent State University (KSU), Cleveland Heights-University Heights Associate Children’s Librarian Shamekia Chandler won the prestigious Virginia Hamilton and Arnold Adoff Creative Outreach Grant for Teachers and Librarians. Chandler’s proposal was for the program “Cinderella around the Globe,” scheduled for May 19, 2011, at the [...]

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Heights Libraries jump on Blu-Ray bandwagon this spring

by Nancy Levin March 8, 2011

“When you can count the pores on someone’s face during an action scene, you know you are watching Blu-Ray, and you will never be able to watch a regular DVD again!” says a 37-year-old Colin, a resident of Cleveland Heights. Explaining his enthusiasm he confides, “Yes, I like to play games and I am a [...]

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Heights Library on the Cutting Edge

by Dean Schnurr January 14, 2011

Cleveland Heights, Ohio – The way people utilize libraries and read books is changing and the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library is striving to stay on the cutting edge of those changes. Although printed copies of books remain a staple for some; many people are switching to electronic devices or e-readers to satisfy their thirst [...]

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