The Seattle Central Library will be a lot noisier than usual as the 12th Librarian hosts a live broadcast of the NFC Championship game between the Seahawks and 49ers Sunday. It’s the second week in a ...

the new Central Library was built and larger than ever, complete with a drive-in service window! PHOTO COURTESY OF SEATTLE MUNICIPAL ARCHIVES And then finally, in 1998, Koolhaas in conjunction with ...

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 ...

From now on, whatever you check out of the Seattle Central Library will play in color-coded streams across six big plasma screens on the library's fifth floor. Fear not. "Making Visible the Invisible" ...

The 11-level Central branch opened its doors to the public in May of 2004 to many excited fans of Rem Koolhaas, the Dutch architect who helped design the building alongside Joshua Ramus. Many visit ...

SEATTLE — Fashion District Northwest is inviting the community to discover how your wardrobe can boost confidence, simplify mornings, and showcase your personal power. On Sept. 20, the Seattle Central ...

On a Wednesday morning, I climbed up the iconic bright chartreuse escalators in the OMA-designed Seattle Central Library. Before I had reached the Living Room—the main public room on the third floor—I ...

The Mental Health Project is a Seattle Times initiative focused on covering mental and behavioral health issues. It is funded by Ballmer Group, a national organization focused on economic mobility for ...

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 ...

Seattle Central Library architect Rem Koolhaas will return to the library to give a free talk at 2 p.m. Sept. 13 in the auditorium. It will be Koolhaas' first public talk in Seattle since the Central ...