Databases Web Catalog Friends Newsletter Internet Policy Library Services Mission Statement Reed Memorial Library is committed to providing materials and services which meet the educational, recreational, and informational needs of all people of all ages in the community. Special emphasis will be placed on fostering life-long learning. Talking book service through Cleveland Public Library can be established through the library for anyone with a reading problem due to a physical disability or a learning disability. The library is the talking book machine issuing agency in Portage County. Broken machines can be returned to the library for replacement.
Descriptive videos are available for the visually challenged.
The library has an extensive Portage County and Ravenna history collection for research purposes. County newspapers are available on microfilm from the early 1800's to the present. Microfilm records of the Portage County portion of the census records can be viewed - coverage included through 1900. Early maps include an 1857 wall map of Portage County and the 1875 and 1900 county atlases. With the celebration of Ravenna's bicentennial in 1999, the library established a local history presence on this web site.