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Cleveland State University College of Law Library

A good library is a place, a palace, where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.”

Libraries as Gathering Places

As the Information Age pushes onward, forever chang-ing the landscapes of our librar-ies, one thing remains constant. Regardless of the vessels that information and knowledge come to us, they are still collected and shared under the roof of the library building.

A library’s roof is an umbrella under which all of a society’s past collective knowledge resides. It serves as a place to explore the world ahead of us, behind us and the all the possibilities in between.

Throughout time, the library has stood as a symbol of our faith in knowlede and its ability to sustain, cultivate and advance our society and culture. In short, a well designed library should

“A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas–a place where history comes to life.” - Arthur Meier Schlesinger, American Historian

inspire its patrons by providing a balance of individual privacy for self discovery with the pub-lic sharing of knowledge that arouses interaction and the exchange of ideas.

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Night and day, the Cleveland State College of Law Library invites stu-dents to explore.