Text description provided by the architects. The Seattle Central Library redefines the library as an institution no longer exclusively dedicated to the book, but as an information store where all ...

A sign on an entrance to the Broadview branch of Seattle Public Library after a cybersecurity incident in May. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) In its latest update about the ransomware attack that ...

Seattle voters will decide in August whether to renew funding for the Seattle Public Library through a proposed 2026 library levy, a measure library leaders say is critical to maintaining aging ...

A Seattle City Council committee has voted to expand Mayor Wilson’s proposed library levy, raising it from $410 million to nearly $480 million. Despite voting for the measure, Select Committee on the ...

Hans Teuter of Seattle holds a stack of books he was checking out — without computer help — for himself and his mother at Seattle Public Library’s Broadview branch on Wednesday. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt ...

SEATTLE — Most Seattle libraries will now be open seven days a week thanks to funding from the seven-year $219 million 2019 Library Levy. The levy supplements city funding to support library services ...

Last year, the Seattle Public Library (SPL) hired mega-corporate-brand-strategist Hornall Anderson (GE, Starbucks, Frito-Lay) to lead a rebranding process. Ho-hum, right? Libraries are regularly ...

On the ninth floor of the downtown Seattle Central Library, there’s a window that was shattered from the inside. Staff put a board over it and hid it with a trash can, and even though the largest ...

When Pat Bliquez interviewed for the librarian job at McDonald International Elementary in Seattle’s North End a few years ago, she asked what her library budget would be. For more than two decades, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Seattle City Council committee has voted to expand Mayor Wilson's proposed library levy, raising it from $410 million to nearly ...