Attached to this post is an Excel file containing recent additions to the Fine Arts Department. Once you open the file you will see links to the online catalog that will facilitate item requests. Be sure to visit our blog regularly to be the first to check out these new items!

Are you looking to find who sang that favorite oldie?  Would you like to know if that old LP in the attic is worth anything?  Would you like a list of all the hits by the singer you saw on TV (or YouTube)?  The Fine Arts Department at Cleveland Public Library has all of the resources you will need to answer these questions and many others about popular music from its beginnings to the present (though we can't tell you who will be hot next year).

THIS PAGE contains a list of some reference books which can help you answer these kinds of questions; some of them are available to check out, but many are reference titles only at the Main Library.  You can come in to use them or call the Fine Arts Department for more information at 216-623-2848.

Did you know the Cleveland Clinic has a concert band?  Why not check them out at 12 noon on Friday July 3rd, 2009 here at the library? The band will give a free concert in the Main Library's Eastman Reading Garden. Bring your lunch and enjoy the festive tunes of the season as the Band shares patriotic and American standards like; The Star Spangled Banner, Georgia on my Mind, and God Bless America. The concert is free and open to the the public but will relocate to the Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium in case of inclement weather.  For more information please call: 216-623-2848.  See you there!

On June 27, 2009, the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) will open the first of three new wings designed by architect Rafael Viñoly, marking a major milestone in the museum's renovation and expansion project. The 139,200-square-foot East Wing connects CMA's original 1916 Beaux-Arts building, designed by Hubbell and Benes, and the 1971 addition by Marcel Breuer, and creates new spaces for the presentation and conservation of one of the nation's leading encyclopedic collections. Viñoly's design for the addition unites two historically significant buildings, physically and aesthetically, with a third, new structure that contributes to the greater architectural whole of the museum. CMA's renowned collections of 19th century European sculpture, painting, and decorative arts, modern and contemporary art, and photography will return to public view for the first time since the museum closed its galleries in 2005. The phased renovation and expansion of the facility will, when it is completed in 2012, add an additional 200,000 square feet, including two more wings and a soaring glass-enclosed atrium at the center of the new complex that will serve as an inspiring civic space for the benefit of the entire community.

Read more here and check out their full calendar of events for this summer.

Friday, June 19^th 2009, The Premiers

Friday, August 28^th 2009, J Black Trio

Visit downtown Cleveland's outstanding lunch spot this summer. Relax in the beautiful surroundings of the Eastman Reading Garden, listen to music and enjoy a delicious box lunch. Performances begin at 12:15. If inclement weather the program will be moved inside to the Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium. Box lunch orders may be placed through the Friends of the Cleveland Public Library: 216-623-2821