The Shaker Heights Public Library opened in 1922 in a room at Boulevard School. In 1937, the Board of Education voted to create a school district library. The library moved to a storefront on Lee Road, and then built a library building in 1951 at 3450 Lee Road.
The library renovated the former Moreland Elementary School building as a new Main Library in 1993, and in 1998, renovated the 2nd floor of the building in order to provide spacious meeting rooms, a computer center and a teen center.
In 1960, the Bertram Woods Branch Library was completed. It was enlarged in 1977 with the addition of a fiction room, in 1991 with a new Children`s Room, in 1993 with a Reading Garden, and was fully renovated and refurnished in 2003.
Bertram Woods Branch Library was named for Bertram W. Woods (1862-1948), who lived on a farm on the corner of Fairmount Boulevard and Warrensville Center Road. Upon his death in 1948, he bequeathed money and creditors` notes to the Shaker Heights Public Library, which established the Bertram W. Woods Memorial Fund.
The Bertram Woods Reading Garden |
Bertram Woods Branch interior |
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