Seattle Public Library

If the law survives this ballot challenge, Democrats could begin debating whether to expand the tax.

And for the first time in eight years, the Seattle Public Library has new library carts with designs from local artists.

Diego Fidelis and Ning Wan are behind the two new designs.

If you don't have a library card yet, you can sign up at any SPL branch.

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B. J., Seattle Public Library, July 15, 1910.

End of Preface Part 1 of Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest by Catherine Berry Judson.

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Vaughn Jones, KUOW News.

Finally today, the Seattle Public Library offers a number of resources, books, free internet, movie rentals, and genealogy.

Librarians can help trace your family lineage for free.

And now its genealogy collection is celebrating its 100th anniversary.

KNKX reporter Freddie Menarez tells us more.

Librarian John Lamont is researching information about my family at a computer on the ninth floor of Seattle Public Library's central location downtown.

We're going to put in a name and a date.

Who do you want to start with? Let's start with my dad.

So I talked to somebody about this.

Rob Gannon is the Director of Administrative Services at the Seattle Public Library, and he told me a bit more about their plans for the levy money.

Here at the Central Library, we'll be immediately focusing on elevators, maintaining those elevators so that they're available and in service and helping patrons move throughout the building.

There's resource in the levy for us to look at central and find a way to renovate certain spaces on floors to be determined and really update and modernize the physical space to meet the demands of our patrons and our staff.

All kinds of different people.

It is open to everybody who wants to come and use it for whatever reason they prefer.

And, you know, the Seattle Public Library is a pretty popular cause.

We were thinking about that, too, when we were standing on the sidewalk on 4th outside the library.

It's been replicated around the world.

And here to tell us more about it is Stesha Brandon, who is the Literature and Humanities Program Manager at the Seattle Public Library, who also manages the Seattle Reads program.

Welcome to the show, Stesha.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Libby, and welcome to the Weekend Warm-Up.

Let's talk about the library, shall we? I've had my library card for years, and I have used it to read all 30 of the Jack Reacher books, but I never realized that the Seattle Public Library has a ton of free events.

I had a chance to sit down with Elisa Murray from the Seattle Public Library to talk about some of the highlights happening this weekend.

Did you know that the Seattle Library has an artist in residence? It's Joe Cosme.

And tonight, she'll be talking about her work.

There are a lot of events, too many to list right now, and so I've put them all on the website.

Go check it out and go to the library.

And once again, a huge thank you to Elisa Murray from the Seattle Public Library for sharing all of these events with us.

But, like, times a million.

Used copies of her book are precious, and the e-book is tied up for months at the Seattle Public Library.

But we're lucky, because we've got Paulina on Seattle Now today.

And that's because her paperback comes out again, round two.

So they're almost like opposites of each other.

Yeah, there was a square on the Seattle Public Library book bingo that just said animal.

And I really struggled with choosing what book to put there.

But White Fang would be a perfect book for the animal square on a book bingo.

UW's fall quarter starts September 30th.

And finally today, if you use Seattle Public Library Services, you'll notice some temporary changes starting today.

KNKX's Gary Davis explains.

The library is getting a big tech upgrade that will make its IT systems more reliable and modernize many aspects of the library's functions.