Finding the Library

The Library is open from 8am to 4:30pm.  If you are planning to visit the Library, please make sure you have entered the courthouse by 4pm, when the courthouse closes.  The Library observes ten holidays each year, and will be closed on the following days.  We are open on Election Day and Columbus Day.

The Library will close at 3:00 p.m. on December 24 and December 31.

Directions

The Library is in the Hamilton County Courthouse, 1000 Main Street, room 601, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45202, at the intersection of Main and Court streets.

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I'm in the Courthouse.  Where is the Library?

Once inside the courthouse, there are two ways to get to the Library.  There are two sets of elevators, one on either side of the courthouse.  The first set are immediately past the security checkpoint at the entrance on Main Street.  Take the elevators to the 5th floor, turn right and then immediately take the first corridor to the left.  Walk along the hallway, to the corridor on your right just past the wall clock, and you will see the stairs to the Library.

The second way requires no stairs.  It uses the elevator located on the opposite side of the courthouse from the Main Street entrance.  Once you are through security, turn and follow the corridor to the left until it ends, and then left again, so that you are on the Broadway side of the courthouse. Continue along the hallway about 100 feet.  There is a single elevator in a stairwell, behind a pair of glass doors, on your left.  Take it to the 6th floor.  The Library will be to your left as you step off the elevator.

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