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...
Heights Libraries is pleased to announce that it will begin offering limited services at the Lee Road branch the week of May 18, and has also started preparing its four branches for a partial reopening, scheduled for June 2 at Lee Road and June 9 for the Coventry,...
April 20, 2020 Dear Community Members, On March 13, following guidelines from the state of Ohio, the Board of Trustees of the Heights Libraries closed its doors to the public. However, while the buildings are closed, our staff are still busy serving the community in...
I am 74 and my husband is 72. We had been counting on our daughter, who lives on Shaker Square, to help us out if we should catch the virus. The reverse has happened. Even though she went nowhere but to the University Heights Target, the grocery store and the drug...
My parents live in an assisted living facility. The administration early on prudently and wisely instituted an increasingly stringent set of rules designed to keep the residents and staff safe. It began with stopping all visitation and progressed to closing the dining...
Expands offerings to help community weather the closure Following Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Amy Acton's executive order closing schools until at least May 1, the Heights Libraries will also remain closed during that same time, and will remain closed as...