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 ...

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

KITSAP COUNTY — Thanks to a recently approved agreement between Kitsap Regional Library and the Seattle Public Library, any Kitsap County resident with a valid library card can now access all of the ...

SEATTLE — When it's cold outside, it's a great time to explore the great indoors -- and maybe grab a book to curl up with later. Whether you're looking to make a statement on social media or to just ...

Seattle Public Library, or SPL, is the only U.S. library system that makes its anonymized, granular checkout data public. Want to find out how many ...

Fifteen branches of the Seattle Public Library will reduce their hours beginning this week as part of budget cuts adopted last year by the Seattle City Council. Eleven branches will be open 60 hours a ...

The Seattle City Council has expressed interest in using a public library building as an emergency homeless shelter. That idea was proposed Wednesday when newly-appointed Seattle Chief Librarian Tom ...

The Douglass-Truth Branch of the Seattle Public Library has been a staple of Seattle's Central District and a decades-long meeting hub for Seattle's Black community. It's also home to the West Coast's ...

On Saturday, April 14, staffers at the downtown Seattle library discovered two alarming objects on its third-floor shelves: Two books, including South of Broad, a family drama by Pat Conroy, that had ...

Before the birth of her two children, Mary Fontana never had late library fines. Since their birth, that’s changed. She estimates they check out 20 to 30 books a week. “When you have kids it’s easy to ...