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 ...

All tech-enabled systems and services are back up and running at Seattle Public Library this week, roughly three months after… Read More In its latest update about the ransomware attack that took out ...

Fifteen branches of the Seattle Public Library will reduce their hours beginning this week as part of budget cuts adopted last year by the Seattle City Council. Eleven branches will be open 60 hours a ...

With the Seattle Public Library facing a 5 percent or $2.6 million budget cut, it says it will have to close most branch libraries two days a week next year, as well as closing all libraries for a ...

SEATTLE — Seattle Public Library (SPL) administrators say the damage incurred over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic to its facilities more than doubles that of a normal, non-pandemic year, totaling ...

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 ...

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 ...