The Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library has reached an agreement with its Coventry school building tenant, Coventry Peace Inc. (CPC). On Monday, August 31, CPC President Deanna Bremer Fisher, signed a letter of intent created by Heights Libraries that...
Heights Libraries is pleased to announce it will be expanding services in its four buildings in September to include browsing and limited computer use. Computer use will begin Tuesday, September 15, and browsing will begin the following week, Tuesday September 22. Due...
Heights Libraries and Coventry PEACE Campus continue to negotiate lease terms. The current pandemic has posed additional challenges, and negotiations are taking longer than both organizations anticipated, but both hope that they will be able to agree on a workable...
CLICK HERE FOR FULL INFORMATION ABOUT THIS ISSUE. At the July 20 Board of Trustees meeting, Director Nancy Levin shared a financial summary from IFF, the nonprofit real estate company hired to do an assessment of the Coventry Peace Campus for the purpose of creating a...
The Heights Libraries Anti-Racism Task Force has engaged the services of Compass Consulting Services, LLC, to conduct confidential virtual focus groups as part of a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) audit for the organization. Due to COVID-19, the confidential...
CLICK HERE FOR FULL INFORMATION ABOUT THIS ISSUE. On June 30, the leases for the tenants of the Coventry School building at the Coventry PEACE Campus expired with no agreement in place to move forward. The landlord, Heights Libraries, has agreed to extend the leases...
In April, it became clear that the annual Pekar Park Comics and Art Festival, a summer tradition in Coventry Village, would have to be canceled or rescheduled due to the COVID-19 outbreak. While disappointing, the cancellation gave Adult Services Librarian John Piche...
The Fund for the Future of Heights Libraries is currently seeking nominations for its 2020 Fund for the Future of Heights Libraries (FFHL) Honor Roll. Winners will be chosen by the FFHL board and will be celebrated at a virtual event this fall. The honor is a lifetime...
Dear community members, Heights Libraries grieves with you over the brutal, senseless deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and too many other Black Americans. We recognize that as a public institution, it is not enough to passively mourn these losses. We must be...
At its May 18 meeting, the Heights Libraries Board of Trustees approved a cost-reduction plan designed to trim the library’s budget by $2 million in the second half of fiscal year 2020. The library’s 2020 budget is $11,585,412 and will hit the half-way point on June...