Heights Libraries Receives Financial Reporting Award

by Sheryl Banks December 12, 2011

The Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library has received  a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting from the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA). Heights Libraries earned the award for its comprehensive annual financial report (CAFR). The Certificate of Achievement is the highest form of recognition in the area [...]

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Heights Libraries Welcomes New Board Members

by Sheryl Banks December 12, 2011

The Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library is pleased to announce the appointment of two new board members: Abby Botnick and Richard Louis Ortmeyer. Their terms will begin in January 2012. They replace two outgoing Library board members: Board President Audrey Cole, who retires at the end of 2011 after a seven-year term, and Jason Stein, [...]

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Heights Libraries Hires New Deputy Director

by Sheryl Banks November 14, 2011

Cleveland Heights, Ohio–Heights Libraries’ search for a new deputy director has ended with the hiring of Kimberlee DeNero-Ackroyd. Her first day will be November 14, 2011. Her most recent position was library manager at the Willoughby-Eastlake Public Library, where she has worked since 2008. Prior to that, she worked in the Adult Services Department of [...]

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Heights Library Holds Fourth Annual Photography Contest, ‘Focus on the World’

by Sheryl Banks September 13, 2011

The Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library is pleased to announce the Fourth Annual Photography Contest, sponsored by Cedar Center MOTOPHOTO.  Submissions for the contest will be accepted now through Oct. 14, 2011.  Participants may drop off submissions at any of the Heights Libraries. This year’s theme is “Focus on the World.” Contestants are encouraged to submit [...]

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Local ‘Tween’ Author Tricia Springstubb Coming to Lee Road Library

by Sheryl Banks September 13, 2011

Cleveland Heights author Tricia Springstubb will appear at the Lee Road branch of Heights Libraries on Wednesday, October 5, at 7 p.m. to talk about her new middle grade novel, Mo Wren, Lost and Found. She will also sell and sign her books. Mo Wren, Lost and Found is the sequel to Springstubb’s What Happened [...]

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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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