SEATTLE – The Washington State Library and the Washington Talking Book & Braille Library in Seattle are facing layoffs and severe cuts to services after lawmakers declined to include a $6.7 million ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

E-books are coming back to Seattle libraries, but more than two weeks later a ransomware attack continues to throttle many services. The library system announced the “important milestone” on Wednesday ...

From physical fiction books to nonfiction e-books and more, here are the titles Seattle Public Library patrons were checking out the most in 2025.

SEATTLE — The Seattle Public Library took its online catalog offline, including e-books, public computers and in-building Wi-Fi, as it investigates a "ransomware event" affecting its technology ...

Despite the one-two punch of a ransomware attack over Memorial Day weekend — then the Crowdstrike software outage last week — Seattle Public Library will be back to normal soon. Charles Wesley, the ...

SEATTLE — The Seattle Public Library is now the second library in the nation to give teens across the country access to the library's online books. They are doing this through the “Books Unbanned” ...

The Seattle Public Library data breach last year affected nearly 27,000 people, including staff whose Social Security numbers and health care information was compromised, according to the state ...