The Seattle Public Library's Broadview Branch should've been able to celebrate its 50th anniversary back in 2017, or ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Every spring, The Seattle Public Library organizes Seattle Reads, a citywide book club involving over a month of programming with discussions and events. This year’s pick, “You Are Here: Poetry in the ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The moment Seattle's bookworms have been training (reading) for is upon us: Book Bingo kicks off today. But there's a lot more competition in the field this year. That's because adult Book Bingo has ...

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 ...

The Seattle Public Library's West Seattle Branch, 2306 42nd Ave. S.W., will close at 5 p.m. Aug. 15, for a partial re-roofing project. The branch is scheduled to reopen at 10 a.m. Sept. 11. The roof's ...