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

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 ...

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 ...

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 Public Library loves to promote books and reading. This column, submitted by the library, is a space to share library resources. Visit spl.org for more information. Whether or not you or ...

SEATTLE — Staff at libraries run by the state are encountering what they have feared most: Millions of dollars in federal grants are getting pulled. Visitors and staff at Washington Talking Book and ...

Seattle Public Library (SPL) is the only U.S. library system that makes its anonymized, granular checkout data public. Want to find out how many times people borrowed the e-book version of Toni ...

A sign outside the Columbia branch of Seattle Public Library announcing that "All library computer systems down," on Wednesday, May 29, 2024, after the system suffered a ransomware attack. Photo: KUOW ...

The Trump administration is notifying library systems across the country that grant funding is being terminated, despite pending litigation. Washington State Librarian Sara Jones told KUOW the cuts ...

What does reading provide, and what are its perils? These recent memoirs and books about reading dive into this question in ...