121. Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Education
Telephone: (513) 369-6014
Address: 11850 East Enyart Road
Description: In addition to a vast array of public libraries, Cincinnati has an interesting assortment of private libraries to which the public has at least limited access. Here are a few.
122. Salem Public Library
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Education
Telephone: (513) 899-2588
Address: 535 West Pike Street
Description: In addition to a vast array of public libraries, Cincinnati has an interesting assortment of private libraries to which the public has at least limited access. Here are a few.
123. Athenaeum of Ohio Maly Library
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Education
Telephone: (513) 231-2223
Address: 6616 Beechmont Avenue
Description: This Roman Catholic seminary features the Eugene H. Maly Memorial Library, with more than 94,000 volumes in theology, Biblical studies, pastoral counseling, bioethics, and other religious studies. The rare book collection dates from the 13th century. The library is open to the public.
124. Cincinnati Art Museum Library
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Education
Telephone: (513) 721-5204
Address: 920 Eden Park Drive
Description: Certainly the source in the city for books by and about painters, sculptors, and other artists, the Cincinnati Art Museum Library is a much-used resource by artistic types. You may enter at no cost if you have a valid library card from the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. No borrowing allowed, but there is a photocopier on-site.
125. Cincinnati Historical Society Library
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Education
Telephone: (513) 287-7000
Address: 1301 Western Avenue
Description: The Historical Society Library dates from 1831 and includes 40,000 books, 50,000 pamphlets, 2,500 maps, 2,300 periodicals, and 6 million feet of film, much of it relating to regional history. Rarities include books bound in jeweled silver, a flat wooden map of the world, and the Hauck Rare Book Collection. There are also extensive genealogical resources, including Cincinnati birth, baptism, marriage, death, cemetery interment, and property ownership records spanning two centuries, as well as many local high school and college yearbooks. Upstairs in Tower A is one of the nation’s largest libraries devoted to railway history.
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Education
Address: 800 Vine Street
127. Cincinnati Stake Family History Library
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Education
Telephone: (513) 531-5624
Address: 5505 Bosworth Place
Description: This treasure trove, operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and open to the public, is devoted to helping in genealogical research. Major databases include the Ancestral File, a church-managed computer file that contains millions of names and their links to ancestors and descendants. The International Genealogical Index lists places and dates of birth for millions of people, as well as marriages, dating from the 1500s. And the Social Security Death Index lists millions who have died in the United States since 1962.
128. Civic Gardens Center of Cincinnati Library
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Education
Telephone: (513) 221-0981
Address: 2715 Reading Road
Description: You should find the answer to most any gardening question you may have in this collection of noncirculating books. A $35 annual membership entitles you to full use of the library, plus gives you access to the newsletters, lectures, classes, and workshops offered by the Civic Garden Center.
129. Frank Foster Library
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Education
Telephone: (513) 251-0202
Address: 2115 West Eighth Street
Description: The city of Cincinnati’s Urban Appalachian Council runs this research library, which contains the largest collection of books and materials on Appalachia outside of Appalachia. It is open to the public.
130. Johnnie Mae Berry Library
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Education
Telephone: (513) 569-1606
Address: 3520 Central Parkway
Description: The Johnnie Mae Berry Library features the largest assortment of cookbooks in the city. Named for the wife of a former Cincinnati mayor, Johnnie Mae Berry, the library includes 25,000 volumes and 300 periodicals.
131. Literary Club
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Education
Telephone: (513) 621-6589
Address: 500 East Fourth Street
Description: For 151 years, a group of about a hundred book lovers has met on Monday night at this brick structure in the heart of downtown. Each meeting begins with a glass of wine, then it’s on to the Reading Room (adorned with the Shakespeare motto, here comes one with a paper). And indeed, each member must, within every two years, produce a paper on some literary topic. Members include former Scripps Howard CEO Bill Burleigh, former Enquirer editorial page editor Thom Gephart, and former Post columnist Nick Clooney. The club also counts two former presidents, Rutherford B. Hayes and William Howard Taft, among its former members. About four openings become available each year; anyone interested in joining must be sponsored by a current member.
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Education
Address: 917 Plum Street
133. McGuffey Museum at Miami University
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Education
Telephone: (513) 529-8380
Address: 410 East Spring Street
Description: Housed in the former home of William Holmes McGuffey, this is a depository of the complete works of McGuffey. That includes his influential McGuffey Readers, the first books read by generations of schoolchildren 100-plus years ago.
134. Memorial Music Library
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Education
Telephone: (513) 556-6000
Address: 1 Blegen Building
Description: The Memorial Music Library is devoted to all things relating to music composition as well as dance, electronic media, and other topics. The library holds 26,000 volumes, 7,000 periodicals, 56,000 music scores, 40,000 LPs, and 6,000 microfilms. There is a Music Listening Center.
City: Cincinnati, OH
Category: Education
Address: 414 Walnut Street