A conversation with Seattle
The downtown Seattle Public Library is turning 10 years young this month, and it deserves a celebration. Mayor Murray has … Continue reading Downtown Library turns 10 this month, celebration to follow
Seattle Public Library has gone, well, public with their streaming media partnership with Hoopla. The collection — of movies, TV shows, albums, and audio books — is Hoopla’s, which is why I’m watching African Queen. They have 10,000 films and TV titles, Netflix has 60,000. Continue reading Seattle Public Library Has Got Your Netflix-Style Streaming Right Here
We here at Glimpses love a good photo of a library – especially when it involves people using a library! Thanks to new SunBreak Flickr Pool user Lotus21 for her addition. Continue reading Glimpses: “electronics on the left – books on the right…”
You may not think you’d need extra soundproofing in a library, but you wouldn’t be taking into consideration the “tour guides on the Observation Deck,” or “fistfights echoing from somewhere down on the fifth floor.” A central portion of Powell’s article, in fact, has to do with the daily use of the public library by homeless and mentally ill people. Continue reading Checking Out the Homeless at Seattle’s Downtown Library
The Seattle Public Library’s new Museum Pass program lets you use your library card to check out free museum passes. You’re allowed one pass per week to any participating museum, but you have to wait 30 days to go back to one you’ve already visited. (It’s one pass per library card, as well.) Continue reading Seattle Public Library Now Lets You Check Out a Museum (Pass) for Free
You love it, you hate it, or you’ve never seen it in person. It’s the red floor at the Central … Continue reading Glimpses: “Red”
The levy even allows the city to cut the library’s budget again in 2013, by as much as an estimated $5 million. Why would the city cut-and-fund, you ask? That $5 million would be cut from general fund support for the library, allowing the city to reallocate those monies. It’s a kind of budgetary gerrymandering, creating popular, self-funding “districts” via levy (schools, parks, libraries, roads) while allowing officials to pose dramatically with general-fund hatchets. Continue reading City Council Votes to Bring Library Levy to Voters in August