The culture wars are heating up the stacks as more than a third of the books banned during the 2023-2024 school year featured ...

To mark its bicentennial, the Brooklyn Museum highlights the pieces that have shaped its collection—and the foundational art ...

An educator/entertainer of kids for SPL for 35 years, Laura Meyer was known for puppet shows and X-ray vision to read facing ...

In March 1925, Tennessee became the first state in the country to ban the teaching of evolution in public school classrooms.

Beginning on March 15, the Cleveland Public Library and the Cleveland Silent Film Festival & Colloquium (CSFF) will partner ...

In honor of Women’s History Month, The Seattle Public Library shares four witchy titles in several genres that take place in ...

The Los Angeles Public Library stores thousands of index cards with staff reviews of books dating back to the 1920s. A librarian explains how they were used and what we can learn from them today.

City crews, volunteers, and partners cleared and collected more than 4.1 million pounds of litter around Seattle last year.

(The Center Square) – Tax dollars helped the Seattle Public Library garner more books, e-books and audio books last year, making it one of the largest such collections in the nation. In August 2019, ...

Seattle Public Library, and Seattle City of Literature, has announced Dujie Tahat as the Civic Poet of Seattle for 2025-2026. This designation marks them as the fifth individual to hold the role ...

The seven-member body, all of whom are Republicans, decided to turn a seemingly humdrum municipal task — commemorating the 50th anniversary of the city’s central public library — into a ...