Cuyahoga County Public Library

Cuyahoga County Public Library
LocationGreater Cleveland, Ohio
Established1922
Branches27
Collection
Size2,839,767 [1]
Access and use
Circulation10,716,155 (FY 2022)[2]
Population served589,000
Members737,702 (FY 2022)[3]
Other information
DirectorTracy R. Strobel
Employees500+
Websitehttp://www.cuyahogalibrary.org

Cuyahoga County Public Library (CCPL) has 27 branches that serve 47 communities in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. It was ranked the number one public library in the United States among libraries serving populations of more than 500,000 by the Hennen's American Public Library Ratings 2010.[4] In 2022, more than 10 million items were borrowed by its 737,702 cardholders, and 2.99 million visits were made to branches.[5]

In August 2023, Cuyahoga County Public Library switched to a new website and catalog provider, AspenDiscovery, that features a more powerful catalog search engine and allows users to personalize their experience, mostly by allowing users to post and read reviews, rate items, and utilize a new discovery feature based on similar reads.[6]

Through SearchOhio, Cuyahoga County Public Library is connected to OhioLINK, which provides local access to the State Library of Ohio and 117 university and college libraries across the state. Cardholders have direct access to more than 11 million additional items. SearchOhio, the public library consortium among the libraries of Westerville and the county libraries of Cuyahoga, Mahoning, Lucas, Trumbull, Stark, Summit, Portage, and Greene provides direct access to almost 10 million additional items.

Cuyahoga County Public Library has branches in the suburbs of Bay Village, Beachwood, Bedford, Berea, Brecksville, Brook Park, Brooklyn, Chagrin Falls, Fairview Park, Garfield Heights, Gates Mills, Independence, Maple Heights, Mayfield, Middleburg Heights, North Olmsted, North Royalton, Olmsted Falls, Orange, Parma (Parma-Powers and Parma-Snow branches), Parma Heights, Richmond Heights, Solon, South Euclid-Lyndhurst, Strongsville, and Warrensville Heights[7]

  1. ^ "Cuyahoga County Public Library".
  2. ^ "Cuyahoga County Public Library" (PDF).
  3. ^ "Cuyahoga County Public Library" (PDF).
  4. ^ "2010 HAPLR Edition". Archived from the original on 23 March 2009. Retrieved 17 September 2009.
  5. ^ "CCPL 2022 Annual Report" (PDF). Cuyahoga County Public Library. Retrieved February 11, 2024.
  6. ^ "Aspen - Cuyahoga County Public Library". cuyahogalibrary.org. Retrieved 2024-02-11.
  7. ^ "Branches - Cuyahoga County Public Library". cuyahogalibrary.org. Retrieved 2022-10-25.