Editing Cleveland Public Library (section)

==Branches==
[[File:Rookwood Installation at Carnegie West.jpg|thumb|[[Rookwood Pottery Company|Rookwood]] Installation at Carnegie-West Branch]][[File:Carnegie West.jpg|thumb|right|Carnegie-West Branch]]During the 1890s, William Howard Brett opened four self-contained branch libraries in leased buildings.  As early as 1891, he asked Andrew Carnegie for building permanent structures, but the steel-mogul-turned-philanthropist refused the librarian's requests for 12 years. Brett persisted and in 1903 Carnegie donated $250,000 to build seven branches, including the Woodland Branch. Carnegie was so impressed with Brett's money management of the funds, he eventually increased the amount to $507,000, which built 15 branches-the foundation for what would become one of the largest branch systems in the United States.  Children living in the city's poorest manufacturing districts could not visit the library downtown or the new branches, so William Howard Brett and Miss Eastman put small reading collections in neighborhood homes. By 1913, there were 57 "home libraries" in seven different working class districts, serving 11 different nationalities: Italian, Greek, Syrian, Polish, Bohemian, Hungarian, Slovak, Irish, German, Danish, and Norwegian.<ref name=":0" />[[File:Lorain Ave Carnegie Library in the City of Cleveland, Ohio.jpg|thumb|right|Lorain Branch]]
[[File:South Branch Carnegie Library in Cleveland, Ohio.jpg|thumb|right|South Branch]]

Currently, the Cleveland Public Library has 27 neighborhood branches located throughout the city in addition to the Ohio Library for the Blind and Physically Disabled:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cpl.org/locations |title=Locations |publisher=Cleveland Public Library |access-date=April 26, 2017 |archive-date=April 29, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170429000031/https://cpl.org/locations/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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#Addison Branch
#Brooklyn Branch
#Carnegie-West Branch – the biggest neighborhood branch at {{convert|25000|sqft|m2}}
#Collinwood Branch
#East 131st Street Branch
#Eastman Branch
#Fleet Branch
#Fulton Branch
#Garden Valley Branch
#Glenville Branch
#Harvard-Lee Branch
#Hough Branch
#Jefferson Branch
#Langston Hughes Branch
#Lorain Branch
#Martin Luther King, Jr. Branch
#Memorial-Nottingham Branch – also the location of the Ohio Library for the Blind and Physically Disabled 
#Mount Pleasant Branch
#Public Administration Library
#Rice Branch
#Rockport Branch
#South Branch
#South Brooklyn Branch
#Sterling Branch
#Union Branch
#Walz Branch
#West Park Branch
#Woodland Branch
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[[File:Sensory Garden at the Ohio Library for the Blind and Physically Disabled.jpg|thumb|Sensory Garden at the Ohio Library for the Blind and Physically Disabled]]A Sensory Garden is also adjacent to the Ohio Library for the Blind and Physically Disabled. The garden was first organized in 1998 and was significantly enlarged the following year. The garden features plants specifically for the tactile sensations they provide and unique scents.<ref>{{cite news
| last         = Spector
| first        = Kaye
| date         = May 19, 2005
| title        = Garden for blind people is a treat for senses
| work         = The Plain Dealer
| location     = Cleveland, Ohio
| page = E15
| via = NewsBank: America's News – Historical and Current
| quote = ...The Sensory Garden at the Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, part of the Cleveland Public Library system, has plants specially selected for their scents and textures so that blind and disabled people can enjoy them: nutty geranium, root beer plant, lime basil, pineapple sage, peppermint and sweet bay magnolia, among dozens of others. ... The garden was first planted in 1998 and substantially expanded in 1999. It is maintained through donations. (excerpt)
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===Former sub-branches<span class="anchor" id="(Former) Sub-Branches"></span>===
The Cleveland Public Library had Sub-Branches (Stations) named Alliance, [[Alta Public Library|Alta House]], Brooklyn, Detroit, Glenville, [[Hiram House]], Lorain, Lorain-Clark, Prospect, South Brooklyn, Superior, and Temple.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Cleveland Public Library, Preservation Office|date=1911|title=Library Directory|journal=The Open Shelf|volume=111| issue =  1}}</ref>