Coventry Village Branch of Heights Libraries — Attraction in Cleveland Heights

I attended Library PALs at Coventry with my two children today. It was our first time at this particular class. We have frequented story times at the Lee Road location and events here at Coventry, Lee, and the UH location. Today I was very disappointed in the librarian who ran the PALs program. It seemed most of the kids there were “regulars” and it was our first class. My son is only 20 months, but wasn't the youngest kid there, and she corrected him MULTIPLE times. Which some of it was fine, accidentally stepping on the toys, but he had a melt down. Toddlers have melt downs, other kids in the class today had melt downs. She asked me to take him into the other room if “this was too much for him”. She didn’t suggest that to any other caregivers when their toddlers cried. It felt very judgmental and hostile. I love our library system, and I have never had a bad experience before. This may have been a bad day for said librarian, but no child should ever feel unwelcome at our library, and today my children and I...

Cool old building with helpful staff. I went in looking for more info specifically on my house/street in CH. They didn’t have anything like that but they did find me a few good books about our area. While I was reading those they did some research (unprompted by me) and found some helpful websites and other resources that may be helpful such as case western archives, Cleveland heights main library branch and CH historical society. On top of all of that the building is cool and cozy with good parking near by, nice park and of course...

4 stars because the children's area is pretty small. Everything in the kids area was thrown into a pile like junk on the floor, it was very disconcerting because this is a library and that's sad to see. We did enjoy the small amount of toys they have and do appreciate that the children's section is away from everything else, because kids make noise, its what they do. The room was also decorated nicely. I could definitely picture myself being...