LIBRARY

EDUCATION

Shaker Heights Public Library
Bertram Woods Branch

Cuyahoga Community College
Metro Campus Center

The Shaker Heights Public Library Bertram Woods Branch serves as a people-focused community hub for learning and collaborating.
—Always By Design

Informed by widespread input, the reimagined Campus Center is now a catalyst for campus and community. It is a beacon, with a glow seen from blocks away. It welcomes all.
—Always By Design

Complimenting the Shaker Heights Main Library, the Bertram Woods Branch serves as a people-focused community hub for learning and collaborating. Built in 1960 with only minor renovations since, the branch is in need of envelope repairs and an intensive interior renovation.

To serve as the home of a 21st Century Library, the reimagined branch library was renovated to:

Maximize accessibility, especially for children and the mobility impaired, making the library easier to use and explore, such as by lower and face-out shelving for better visibility.
Embrace technology, by both providing appropriate technology as well as accommodating the ways technology is used by customers (e.g., collaborative work and multimedia content production.)
Anticipate future change, by creating spaces for users of all ages that meet current learning and collaboration needs of users and that can be reconfigured to meet future needs.
Accomodate better “Community Center” space with meeting, study and activity rooms of varied sizes.