Friends of the Middleburg Hts. Library

06/13/2025

Our Fairview Park Branch received a very special delivery in the mail this week: A customer mailed back a copy of "Let's Go 1992: The Budget Guide to Spain & Portugal" that was checked out in -- you guessed it -- 1992!

It's never too late to return a library book! We hope you enjoyed your trip! 😊

05/24/2025

CCPL’s Preschool Club recently received the 2025 Early Childhood Team Innovation Award from Cuyahoga County Invest in Children for the program’s innovative approach to meeting community needs.

This award recognizes “an agency, organization or collaborative that has developed and implemented innovative programs, or new ways to operate, in meeting the needs of families with young children and/or other providers who serve them in Cuyahoga County.”

04/08/2025

It's National Library Week!

Support your local library every day! 📚

04/08/2025

Celebrating and thanking our entire library staff! You rock!

04/04/2025

The Ohio House of Representative’s proposed budget will dismantle the Public Library Fund – replacing it with an unstable funding structure that could severely impact the ability of public libraries in Cuyahoga County to offer programming, resources, services and spaces – just as the demand for these services is growing.

The proposed budget reduces funding for the libraries in Cuyahoga County by nearly 25%.

Please join us in asking the Ohio House of Representatives to restore the Public Library Fund.

Email your representative TODAY:
https://form.jotform.com/250925435784162

03/22/2025

03/15/2025

Don't mess with libraries!

NEW: President Trump's executive order to eliminate the Institute of Museum & Library Services would have disastrous effects for communities nationwide. We call on all Americans who value reading and learning to reach out to their elected leaders.

Read ALA's full response: https://www.ala.org/news/2025/03/ala-statement-white-house-assault-institute-museum-and-library-services

02/26/2025

“A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.” ― Andrew Carnegie

08/21/2024

Hey, that's Ron Block, our branch manager!
Click on the link to learn more about him.

Ron Block is the manager of our Middleburg Heights Branch and a co-host of the Friends and Fiction: Writers' Block podcast. Since he was young, reading and food have been his passions, and he brings those passions together in creative ways. In 2020, he was named a Library Journal Mover and Shaker fo...

06/30/2024

Check out the Middleburg Heights Friends of the Library Summer 2024 Newsletter!

12/14/2023

How many books have you read this year? Did you meet any goals that you set for yourself?

📷 Interior of the Brecksville Branch

10/17/2023

Fall 2023 Newsletter - https://mailchi.mp/b30712825b5e/httpsmcusercontentcomd133e9e2d10f40585e4f97f2dfilese64bd63b-7562-ca8c-6210-93bc1bf310d4mdh_friends_newsletter_fall_2022pdf-12783669