About the Library

This picture mosaic displays years of community service GMPL has given to the Grafton area.

There are numerous pictures of the library and it's staff. This picture shows the many years of history the Library has.

Here is a photo of a group of children at the library enjoying storytimes. The picture is probably from the 1970's.

A Brief History of the Grafton-Midview Public Library

In the early half of the 1940s, Harriet Spitzer spearheaded efforts to organize a free public library to serve the Grafton area. The Grafton-Midview Public Library was chartered as a school district library in 1944. The Library was first housed on the second floor of Grafton School on Elm Street, followed by a later move to the first floor of the school. In 1971, the Library relocated to a vacated bank building down the street and around the corner at 983 Main Street -- purchase price: $1.00! In 1991, a new addition, with a renovation of the existing building, expanded the Library's total square footage from 2,078 to 11,873.

Here is a photo of a very old photo of the Library back in the early 1900's. At that time it was a bank.

The Grafton-Midview Public Library, one of seven independent public libraries in Lorain County, is located in the southeastern section of the county in northeastern Ohio. Its service area includes approximately 24,000 residents in Grafton Village, Grafton Township, Eaton Township, and parts of Carlisle Township and Elyria.

This picture shows a picture of former director David Dial with his staff.

The Grafton-Midview Public Library has been automated since 1991 with software from The Library Corporation (TLC). In 1997, the library upgraded to TLC's Library Solution application; the online public access catalog -- is available on the website. The library's Internet service provider is OPLIN, the Ohio Public Library Information Network which provides our Internet access via a 100 mg upload/download circuit and an Agile Network microwave transmitter.