Wadsworth Public Library

Specialties

The Wadsworth Public Library is an independent library serving Wadsworth city, township, and surrounding areas. The Library offers books, music, movies and much, much more, including free Internet access on public computing workstations, plus free wi-​fi throughout the building. A meeting room is available free of charge to non-​profit groups in addition to two quiet study rooms available first-​come, first-​served.

The Library is part of the SearchOhio consortium which means that items may be borrowed from many other libraries around Ohio including Cuyahoga County Public Library — one of the largest in the US — plus Toledo, Youngstown, Akron-​Summit County, Greene County, Stark County, Akron-​Summit County Library, and many others. Customers can also tap the resources of Ohio’s private and public college and university libraries through OhioLink.

History

Established in 1925.

Mrs. Ella M. Everhard purchased the Dr. Thomas Leiter house in 1925 and donated it to the village of Wadsworth to be used as a library and meeting place for womens’ social clubs. The original house was razed in 1957 and replaced with a modern brick building. That building was renovated in 1987; a 14,000 sf addition, plus further renovations were completed in 2003. The building sits approximately on the same property once owned by early Wadsworth settler, Judge Frederick Brown, who had books brought from Connecticut to become part of a circulating library for the village.