What: Reading Rumpus (A Family Storytime)
Dates: Fri, Dec 4 – Feb 26,
Time: 10:30am
Age Level: Children
Registration: No Registration Required

Description:
Reading is fun for everyone. Bring the entire family and get in on the action. Books, songs, rhymes and activities designed to help develop early literacy skills during our weekly reading adventure.

What: Stay and Play
Dates: Fri, Dec 4 -- Feb 26,
Time: 9am -- 12 pm,
Age Level: Children
Registration: No Registration Required

Description:
Play with toys and enjoy puppets, puzzles and books. While you're here drop in for Reading Rumpus, a storytime designed for the whole family.

Teen Programs:

What: Karaoke Fridays
Dates: Fri, Dec 4 ,18, Jan 8, 22 and Feb 5, 19,
Time: 4pm
Age Level: Teen
Registration: No Registration Required

Description:
If you like to sing, stop in to your Noble Neighborhood Library every other Friday afternoon throughout the winter quarter to get your song on!

Adult Programs:

What: Great Book Discussion Group
Dates: Tues, Dec 1, Jan 19 and Feb 2 & 16,
Time: 7:30pm
Age Level: Adult
Registration: No Registration Required

Description:
Come and talk about classics. Every two weeks we read a new classic or a portion of a classic work. This is the longest standing book group in Cleveland Heights. A love of the classics is helpful.
Schedule of Books:
Dec 1: Marco Polo's The Travels of Marco Polo
(available for download at http://noblegreatbooks.org/)
Jan 19: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Feb 2: Shakespeare's Edward III
Feb 16: Diderot's D'alembert’s Dream

What: Noble Knitting Circle
Dates: Thurs, Dec 3 & 17, Jan 7 & 21 and Feb 4 & 18,
Time: 6:45pm
Age Level: Adult
Registration: No Registration Required

Description:
Bring in your current project, a project you need help with or some knitting worsted yarn and number 8 needles, and we will show you how to knit. We also knit for local charities making blankets, clothing, and hats and scarves.

What: Mystery Evening
Dates: Thurs, Dec 10, Jan 14 & Feb 11,
Time: 7pm
Age Level: Adult
Registration: No Registration Required

Description:
Come and talk about mysteries. Each month we read a different mystery and talk about it. We're a friendly group and welcome new readers. A love of books is helpful.
Schedule of Books:
Dec: Barbara Corrado Pope's Cezanne’s Quarry
Jan: David Dickinson's Death of an Old Master
Feb: Thomas Swan's The Cezanne Chase

What: Financial & Home Owner Info Clinic
Date: Thurs, Dec 17,
Time: 1pm
Age Level: Adult
Registration: No Registration Required

Description:
The Home Repair Resource Center will have housing counselors available for 15-20 minute individual sessions to answer questions about foreclosure, credit or other financial concerns at this drop-in clinic.

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Noble Neighborhood Library

The Noble Neighborhood library offers an outstanding Mystery Fiction collection as well as Horror and African American titles. The overall collection offers something for everyone, but places emphasis on Cookbooks and Crafts and Travel in the Adult Non-fiction area. The Children's book collection places an emphasis on Picture books and Concept books (Numbers, Alphabet and Shapes). Noble Neighborhood Library has an ongoing Mystery Book Discussion Group that has met monthly for over six years. A wide array of books in numerous languages are available.

Noble Neighborhood Library Event Calendar

Hours

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
closed	1:00 pm - 9:00 pm	1:00 pm - 9:00 pm	9:00 am - 5:30 pm	1:00 pm - 9:00 pm	9:00 am - 5:30 pm	9:00 am - 5:30 pm

History:
1923, January 23	Noble opened in a movable building on the grounds of Noble Elementary School.
1923, October 15	Noble was opened three days per week.
1924, October 1	Noble changed its hours so that the library would be open six days per week.
1925	Noble Library moved into a different portable building.
1937	Noble Library moved into its current location, a new brick building located at 2800 Noble Road. The building is in the Georgian Revival style and was designed by Cleveland architects Frank Walker and Harry Weeks.
1963	Noble Library was expanded and the Non-Fiction Room was added.
1995	Noble Library was renovated. An elevator and new meeting rooms were added.
1995	Noble Library was featured in the Heights Heritage Home Tour in September.

Did you know?:

Noble Library has hosted a monthly Great Book Discussion Group since 1946.
The school district has taught English as a Second Language classes at Noble for many years.
Noble Library has a Knitting Circle that meets every first and third Thursday of each month. The group knits blankets and apparel for Women’s shelters and the homeless.
On 1/23/23 when the library opened its doors for the first time, staff circulated 55 books and issued 48 library cards.

Contact Information
Phone:	216-291-5665
Fax:	216-291-1798
Public Fax:	216-382-5713

Staff
Branch Manager	JoAnn Vicarel jvicarel@heightslibrary.org

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