page_title: Toledo-Lucas County Public Library
section_title: Locations
hierarchical_section_title: Toledo-Lucas County Public Library / Locations
caption_attribution_description: English: South Branch Carnegie Library, 1638 Broadway, Toledo, Ohio
context_page_description: Toledo Lucas County Public Library is a public library system located in Toledo, Ohio.
context_section_description: The Main Library is located at 325 North Michigan Street in downtown Toledo, the Main Library has several departments, Computers & Media, Children's Library, Fact & Fiction, Local History & Genealogy, and the Teen Department & Studio Lab. The Children's Library at Main Library houses a creativity lab, The Susan M. Savage Family Place.
  The Main Library also houses the award-winning Rogowski-Kaptur Labor History Room. Named for Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur's mother this room won the John Sessions Memorial Award from the American Library Association in 2014.  The library has The Blade Rare Book Room & Vault featuring rare and valuable items such as a letter from Thomas Jefferson dated 1800 and first editions of the original Nancy Drew series, written by local newspaper columnist and author, Mildred Wirt Benson. Both of these rooms are located in the Local History and Genealogy Department.
  The library system currently has 20 branches and four Mobile Services vehicles. The locations besides Main Library are the Birmingham Branch (opened in 1920), Heatherdowns Branch (opened 1968), Holland Branch (opened 1984), Kent Branch, which also houses the Art Tatum African-American Resource Center, opened in 1917. King Road Branch (opened 2016), Lagrange Branch (opened 1934), Locke Branch (opened in 1917), Maumee Branch (former location of the Lucas County Library which opened in 1937), Mott Branch (opened in 1918), Oregon Branch (opened 1965), Mobile Services, Point Place Branch (opened 1938), Reynolds Corners Branch (opened 1958), Sanger Branch (opened 1950), South Branch (opened in 1918), Sylvania Branch (opened at its original location in 1926, opened at its current location in 1958, while still a separate entity from the Toledo Public and Lucas County Libraries), Toledo Heights Branch (opened 1935), Washington Branch (opened 1928), Waterville Branch (opened 1964), and West Toledo Branch (opened in 1923).
caption: The south branch building
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