The John G. White Collection of Chess and Checkers is the largest and most comprehensive collection of printed material on chess. While its physical location is Cleveland, Ohio, chess researchers and aficionados may also view parts of the collection online. On July 21, 2021, Woman International Master Alexey Root visited the Cleveland Public Library, which houses the collection. | Photos: Alexey Root
Fam Jam Today's Fam Jam, a day of free family fun at the Rock Hall, will feature live performances from the Beck Center for the Arts and the Cleveland School of Rock, as well as story time sessions with the Cleveland Public Library. There will also be balloon twisters, chalk murals and bubbles. The event will take place from noon to 4 p.m. on the Rock Hall's outdoor plaza. A separate admission ticket must be purchased to tour the Rock Hall exhibits.
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Dennis Kucinich: From sleeping in a car as a kid to 16 years in Congress MORE U.S. House Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) waits to speak to a crowd at the 2008 DNC. Photo by Juli Hansen/Shutterstock.
Dennis Kucinich’s story, which he relays in detail in his latest book, “The Division of Light and Power” available June 8 is in many ways the story of the sort of American dream to which so many aspire, yet to which so few have access. It’s also the exact opposite a tale of the often untold struggles of a principled person faced with everything that’s rotten in the state of America. The former Congress member and Cleveland mayor grew up in poverty in a large Catholic family in the city he later went on to run, painfully aware of the distress and oppression caused by precarious economic conditions that, coupled with systemic racism, deprived his mostly Black neighbors of a stable life. As a young Kucinich began to work in eff
Libraries Are Essential
Opening Remarks, with Cohosts Andrew Richard Albanese and Sari Feldman
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Andrew Richard Albanese leads the magazine’s library coverage. Albanese has covered the publishing and information technology fields for more than 21 years and is a former associate editor of American history at Oxford University Press, a former editor at
Library Journal, and author of The Battle of $9.99: How Apple, Amazon and the Big Six Publishers Changed the E-book Business Overnight.
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Sari Feldman is the former executive director of the Cuyahoga County Public Library in Cleveland and a past president of both the Public Library Association (2009–2010) and the American Library Association (2015–2016). She is currently an ALA policy fellow focusing on digital library policy.