The ways things sometimes go, we should probably celebrate what is retained over mourning anything lost in the most recent changes for library hours across Capitol Hill, the Central District, and ...

All the Seattle Public libraries are closed this week because of budget cuts. But you won’t have to go without a read because a group of activists is setting up a people’s library in the Central ...

The 11-level Central branch opened its doors to the public in May of 2004 to many excited fans of Rem Koolhaas, the Dutch architect who helped design the building alongside Joshua Ramus. Many visit ...

Seattle Public Library (SPL) is the only U.S. library system that makes its anonymized, granular checkout data public. Want ...

Seattle Public Library card holders can now get free admission to two new museums: the Seattle Japanese Garden in the Washington Park Arboretum and the Volunteer Park Conservatory. All it takes to ...

Downloaded any good books lately? Now you can, through the Seattle Public Library's new Digital Books program. The library last week started letting patrons borrow digitized spoken and readable books ...

The Seattle Public Library’s museum pass program will be “paused temporarily” starting in 2025. The program allows library-card holders to get free tickets to 13 Seattle museums, including the Seattle ...

Thinking of grabbing a book to read in the park Thursday for Seattle’s warmest day of 2025 so far? Be warned that the Seattle Public Library is closing all of its locations on May 1. The library ...

The Seattle Public Library is gearing up for another volume of its citywide book group, Seattle Reads, and this year, the KUOW Book Club is getting involved. SPL announced Monday that the 2025 Seattle ...

I wish my kid would use the library during winter break. He’ll be at a gym playing hoops instead. He’s obsessed, much like the character Basketball Jones in that old Cheech & Chong routine. But for ...

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