The Cleveland Medical Library Association (CMLA, founded 1894) is a physicians’ organization that oversees the Allen Memorial Medical Library (approximately one million prints from 1471 onward) and supports the Cleveland Health Sciences Library. Located at 11000 Euclid Avenue since 1926, CMLA membership provides northeast Ohio health professionals with library services including borrowing, photocopies, interlibrary loan, and literature searches. The CMLA publishes a biannual newsletter and holds annual meetings.
Allen Memorial Medical Library
The Allen Memorial Medical Library is the hub of the Cleveland Health Sciences Library and the CMLA. Designed by the architectural firm of Frank R. Walker and Harry E. Weeks for the CMLA, the building’s cornerstone was laid on July 23, 1925, and completed the next year. Elisabeth Severance Allen Prentiss (1865-1944) established the library to honor her late husband, Dr. Dudley Peter Allen (1852-1915), scion of a prominent Cleveland medical family and a founder of the CMLA.
Allen Memorial Library Hours:
Monday-Friday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
