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 ...

There seems to be a Little Free Library for everything, whether it be poetry, art, plants or more. Here are 14 showcasing the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The library board of trustees unanimously rejected a name and logo change Wednesday evening, The Seattle Times reports. It was a decision that followed months of criticism. The rebranding proposal ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — All locations of The Seattle Public Library will be closed on Thursday, May 1, for the library's annual in-service day dedicated to systemwide staff training and team-building, the SPL ...

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 ...

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 Seattle Times reports on the growth of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Libraries Initiative under the leadership of Deborah Jacobs, former head of the Seattle library system. The ...