Editing Cleveland Public Library (section)

{{Short description|Library system of Cleveland, Ohio (USA)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}
{{infobox library
| library_name = Cleveland Public Library
| name_en = 
| library_logo = Cleveland Public Library logo.svg
| image = Cleveland Public Library (July 2018).jpg
| caption = Front entrance to the Cleveland Public Library Main Library on Superior Avenue
| country = U.S.
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| established = {{Start date and age|1869|2|17}}
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| location = 325 & 525 Superior Avenue [[Cleveland, Ohio]] 44114
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| branch_of = 
| num_branches = Main Library and 27 branch libraries
| items_collected = 
| collection_size = 13,167,127 (2020)<ref>{{cite web|title=2020 CPL Annual Report|url=https://cpl.org/wp-content/uploads/annualreport-2020-final.pdf|publisher=Cleveland Public Library|access-date=31 December 2020|archive-date=23 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211123194254/https://cpl.org/wp-content/uploads/annualreport-2020-final.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
| criteria = 
| legal_deposit = Selective [[Federal Depository Library Program|federal depository library]]<ref name="Depository">{{cite web|title=Ohio|work=GPO Federal Library Directory|publisher=[[United States Government Printing Office]]|access-date=July 10, 2020|url=https://catalog.gpo.gov/fdlpdir/FDLPdir.jsp?flag=searchp&st_12=OH|archive-date=January 2, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090102232324/http://catalog.gpo.gov/fdlpdir/FDLPdir.jsp?flag=searchp&st_12=OH|url-status=live}}</ref>
| req_to_access = 
| annual_circulation = 3,477,830 (2020)<ref>{{cite web|title=2020 CPL Annual Report|url=https://cpl.org/wp-content/uploads/annualreport-2020-final.pdf|publisher=Cleveland Public Library|access-date=31 December 2020|archive-date=23 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211123194254/https://cpl.org/wp-content/uploads/annualreport-2020-final.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
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| members = 
| budget = 
| director = [[Felton Thomas, Jr.]] (Executive Director since 2009)
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| website = {{URL|https://www.cpl.org}}
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| logo = 
}}
The '''Cleveland Public Library''' is a [[public library]] system in [[Cleveland]], Ohio. Founded in 1869, it had a circulation of 3.5 million items in 2020. It operates the Main Library on Superior Avenue in [[downtown Cleveland]], 27 branches throughout the city, a mobile library, a Public Administration Library in [[Cleveland City Hall|City Hall]], and the Ohio Library for the Blind and Physically Disabled. The library replaced the [[State Library of Ohio]] as the location for the Ohio [[Center for the Book]] in 2003.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 21, 2003 |website=Library Journal |url=https://lj.libraryjournal.com/2003/11/ljarchives/cleveland-pl-new-state-center-for-the-book/#_ |title=Cleveland PL New State Center for the Book |access-date=April 24, 2022 |archive-date=June 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612142050/https://lj.libraryjournal.com/2003/11/ljarchives/cleveland-pl-new-state-center-for-the-book/#_ |url-status=live }}</ref>