On Dec. 5, 1975, the Henry L. Yesler Memorial Library was renamed after the influential Black abolitionists to better reflect ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Northeast Branch is accessible from campus in about 20 minutes via the 65 bus. It’s often busy, but you can still usually ...

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 Public Library would like you, please, to not return your books. The library and its 27 branches continue to struggle through a ransomware attack that has disabled its networks, rendered ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seattle will reopen five library bathrooms to better meet some of the hygiene needs of the more than 3,500 people living unsheltered in the city during the coronavirus pandemic, the city announced ...