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	Seattle Public Library - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was officially established by the city in 1890, though there had been a library association active in Seattle since 1868.
		In 1998, Seattle voters, with an unprecedented 69 percent approval rate, approved the largest library bond issue then ever submitted in the United States.
		This library was designed by Rem Koolhaas and his group, the OMA [Office for Metropolitan Architecture].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seattle_Public_Library (194 words)

	Seattle Public Library -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		There are 25 branches in the system including the new (2004) (additional info and facts about Seattle Central Library) Seattle Central Library.
		In addition, as of June 2004, there are three new branches in the planning stages, and one new branch in the first stage of construction.
		The "Libraries for All" bond measure, which proposed a $196.4 million makeover of the Library system, will double the square footage in Seattle's 22 libraries, including the building of new branches, including the new Central Library.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/se/seattle_public_library.htm (137 words)

	Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Seattle Public Library
		The $165 million library was designed to reflect both the building's content and how it will be used.
		Seattle expects to join the library-as-civic-celebrity crowd, with Central Library staff predicting their new building will become an economic force, attracting a surge of new local users and out-of-town tourists.
		Library was designed with homeless issues in mind
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /specials/library (333 words)

	Seattle Public Library: Design is fun on a grand scale
		Inside, the library appears to change its character, starting with the asymmetrical steel skin, which internally is painted a luscious and lulling baby blue.
		The library's odd angling also makes the most of water views as they present themselves in slices through the city's built terrain, and the diamond grid of smart glass will welcome in winter light and screen out the summer's glare.
		This library is rooted in its functions, blooms where it's planted, is art in itself and is going to be a huge hit with the mass audience that is its principal customer.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/174047_larchitecture.html (1046 words)

	Seattle Public Library - The best public products, sites and information on the web today! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Seattle Public Library 1000 Fourth Ave., Seattle, WA 98104-1109.
		The Seattle Public Library Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization registered with the IRS and with the State of Washington.
		The Friends of the Seattle Public Library was established in 1941, during...
	public.bigfatdirectory.net /index.php?k=seattle-public-library (958 words)

	Seattle Channel Video on Demand - Watch Videos
		The Library is governed by a five-member citizens' board of trustees, appointed by the mayor and confirmed by the City Council.
		Library board member and moderator Eric Liu, legal experts, and local community members will explore the USA PATRIOT Act and the effects of the government's response to Sept. 11 has had on ordinary citizens.
		Seattle Public Libraries produced this brief feature to explain how glazing on the new central library windows and curtain walls contribute to making it a more efficient, green building.
	www.seattlechannel.org /videos/watchVideos.asp?program=library (1006 words)

	Reading Rem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Seattle's new library by Rem Koolhaas is a tribute to the human spirit—and technological obsolescence
		Seattle's city librarian, Deborah Jacobs, doesn't pause or equivocate when she's asked what the glittering glass starship newly landed in the heart of downtown celebrates.
		The fourth level, which houses public meeting rooms and a technology training center, is pure fun, an ironic contradiction of the sober functions it serves.
	www.architecturemag.com /architecture/reports_analysis/design_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000576568 (927 words)

	HistoryLink Essay: University Branch, The Seattle Public Library
		With the Carnegie funds to work with, Seattle Public Library decided that Greenlake, West Seattle, and the University District were the areas that most needed the buildings.
		The library closed for 6 weeks in 1918 because of the influenza epidemic, but 360 people got inoculations there at a clinic provided by the city.
		Because of the library’s remote location, Mary N. Baker, the assistant librarian, asked the city for a sign with an arrow pointing to the library at the corner of 50th Street and University Way.
	www.historylink.org /_output.CFM?file_ID=4051 (2007 words)

	Giant Ginkgo: The Seattle Public Library
		Seattle's new library opened a few weeks ago to much fanfair- and rightly so.
		The most likely elements to not age gracefully (or suffer from harm from visitors) are the pretty spiffy chairs and benches that are spread around the reading areas.
		The outside of the library is very odd, but from the inside the angles are really cool, giving everything a sense of motion without being overpowering at the same time.
	www.giantginkgo.com /archives/000220.php (440 words)

	UW Press: Search Books in Print
		Seattle Public Library's dazzling new Central Library, designed by renowned Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, prompted international notice even before the doors opened to this $159 million showplace.
		Yet Seattle Public Library's new prominence came after more than a century of tumult with many heroic struggles, from its itinerant existence in a pioneer boom town to its wired wonders in a world technology center.
		The landmark "Libraries for All" program to remake the entire Seattle Public Library system with a $196 million bond issue, the largest in American library history.
	www.washington.edu /uwpress/search/books/MARPLA.html (399 words)

	HistoryLink Essay: Broadview Branch, The Seattle Public Library
		The community resumed its activism and pushed for a proper library on Greenwood Avenue N. In 1967, the Seattle City Council approved funds to purchase property at Greenwood Avenue N and N 130th Street for the Broadview Branch.
		Seattle was then at the bottom of the Boeing Bust and it took three more years before economic fortunes changed and the council restored construction funding.
		In 1998, Seattle voters approved $196.4 million in "Libraries for All" bonds to replace the central library and all 22 branches and to build three new branches.
	www.historylink.org /output.cfm?file_id=4022 (1346 words)

	Garfield High School - Seattle Public Schools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Library staff taught all staff how to use the program as well as assist them in purchasing scanners for their departments and classrooms.
		The library network received a donated industrial-level printer from the district which meant the library’s older printer could be use in Lab 310.
		Library Software Conversion: The librarian served on a committee which recommended that the school board approve a new joint system district library software with the Seattle Public Library.
	www.ghs.seattleschools.org /content/library/annualreport.php (3170 words)

	Temp Signage \| A Whole Lotta Nothing
		The Seattle Public Library's Central location is amazing, and although you could probably get twice the usable space if the building was conventional, I found it to be a really cool place.
		There are public spaces and private study spaces, the whole thing can be walked from top to bottom even though it doesn't appear to be a "spiral" that would allow that.
		So overall, the library was a great space filled with interesting things to look at and useful spaces, but far too subtle for an obvious funtional space like a public library.
	a.wholelottanothing.org /2004/12/temp_signage.html (464 words)

	clew's reviews: a book log: The new Seattle Public Library
		The library and the sports stadiums will be our cultural bookends to the fortunate 1990s, reminding us what we spent and what we thought would save us.
		So the perfect Library is arranged with an infinite number of petals, extensible as their subjects grow, but all opening to the student in the middle: the one corridor collapsed to a point: the one place we want a Panopticon.
		(23) "So the perfect Library is arranged with an infinite number of petals, extensible as their subjects grow, but all opening to the student in the middle: the one corridor collapsed to a point: the one place we want a Panopticon." - I find it interesting that you bring Foucault's panopticon into the mix...
	www.tenhand.com /clew/blog/archives/000379.html (2876 words)

	Repeat - Rem Koolhaas Seattle Public Library - Introduction
		The new Seattle Public Library, designed by Rem Koolhaas, redefines modernism for the 21st century.
		She persuaded local voters to approve a $194 million bond issue they'd voted down only four years before, and raised another $82 million from private donors, including $20,000,000 from Bill and Melinda Gates, and, not to be outdone, $22,500,000 from another Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen.
		She managed to add 70,000 books, DVDS and other items to the library's collections even as the new building was being finished.
	www.lynnbecker.com /repeat/seattle/seattle.htm (268 words)

	"Brutal" Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Briefly, the new library was designed by international architecture giant Rem Koolhaas, who was in the article as saying “this is an uncomfortable era in architecture”.
		All of which leads one to conclude that the colors in the library must have been determined by females living in isolation from society, perhaps in some remote mountain village in the Pamirs that an outsourced Russian contractor manage to discover in an ultimate effort to find lower labor costs.
		Public buildings have always been allowed to violate the common practices of a culture, without suggesting the end of the world.
	weblogs.asp.net /kpleas/archive/2004/04/27/121407.aspx (5589 words)

	United Way of King County
		Our mission is to become the best public library in the world by being so tuned in to the people we serve and so supportive of each other's efforts that we are able to provide highly responsive service.
		Seattle voters in 1998 approved the largest library bond issue then ever submitted in the United States.
		The landmark "Libraries for All" bond measure, which proposed a $196.4 million makeover of the Library system, garnered an unprecedented 69 percent approval rate at the polls.
	www.volunteersolutions.org /uwkc/org/950802.html (459 words)

	DeVry Seattle Library
		The library is located in the center of the first floor.
		Contact library staff for assistance in using any of the databases and to obtain the password.
		Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction to be used for private study, scholarship, or research.
	sea.devry.edu /student_library.html (481 words)

	Friends of The Seattle Public Library - Home
		The Friends of the Seattle Public Library is a non-profit, grassroots organization dedicated to promoting our Library as an essential institution of society.
		Public libraries, like public schools, are part of the bedrock that supports American communities.
		We keep city officials informed of Library needs and were instrumental in ensuring the passage of a major library bond issue that today is transforming our Library system.
	www.splfriends.org (526 words)

	ArchitectureWeek - 2005.0420
		Enveloping the angular, faceted Seattle Public Library is a steel, glass, and aluminum diamond-shaped grid, which has an expanded aluminum mesh sandwiched between the glass panels.
		From the outside, especially at night, the library is like something large and alien in the city.
		The path OMA had originally proposed would have provided a clearer route, but "the [library] board didn't think it was a valuable use of resources," Ramus explains.
	www.architectureweek.com /2005/0420/today.html (241 words)

	Library Spotlight: Seattle Public Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Since it opened in May 2004, Seattle’s Central Library, a shimmering glass and steel structure designed by architect Rem Koolhaas, has not only changed the way denizens of Seattle think about libraries, but has also garnered the kind of fulsome praise usually reserved for structures with the word Guggenheim in their names.
		With almost 400 computers available for public use, and wi-fi access throughout the building, the library is as tech-friendly as any in the country, thanks to Koolhaas’s insistence that libraries surrender their “unquestioned loyalty to the book.” Librarians are fitted with wireless communication devices, so they can talk with one another wherever they are.
		One of the strongest areas of the library is the teen section, located on level three of the postmodern colossus.
	www.thebookstandard.com /bookstandard/news/author/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000980789 (758 words)

	The Seattle Public Library: Seattle Public Library Home Page
		The Library will celebrate National Children's Book Week in November with a variety of programs for young readers, including three special programs by children's performers.
		Watch history come alive in The Seattle Public Library's Fall 2005 Living History Series.
		Join the Library and Book-It Repertory Theatre for "Little Women: From the Page to the Stage," at 7 p.m.
	www.spl.lib.wa.us (115 words)

	Archpedia - Rem Koolhaas - Seattle Public Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The new structure, on the site where Seattle's first permanent public library was built in 1906, has space for 1.4 million books -- a half-million more than its predecessor -- and is equipped with more than 400 computers.
		The new library will house the library's main collection of books, government publications, periodicals, audio visual materials and the technology to access and distribute information from the physical collection online.
		The steel-tubed skin of the new library, Koolhaas said, "not only provides the main structural support for the building but also modulates light and, with built-in coolers and filters, controls internal air temperature." He noted the building is "pre-quaked," with its irregular shape helping to counteract the movement of an earthquake.
	www.archpedia.com /Projects-Rem-Koolhaas_01.html (446 words)

	Seattle Public Library - Arup Communications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Seeing technology, not as a threat but as a tool "to enable the realization of ancient ambitions - totality, completeness, dissemination, and accessibility", the Seattle Public Library design team looked to Arup's communications & IT consultants to facilitate their vision for the new building.
		The intent to redefine and reinvent the institution as an information store that presents all media, new and old, under a regime of new equalities is now being realized through program-driven design and very close team collaboration.
		Communications and IT systems are embedded within the building via a significant optical fiber-based cabling infrastructure with wireless and radio-frequency technologies supporting efficient cataloguing, reference and checkout procedures.
	www.arup.com /communications/projects/project12a.htm (126 words)

	Seattle Public Library. - Cyburbia Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Public buildings have always been built on a grand scale, usually over budget, and costing large sums to operate throughout their life.
		At the risk of being dissenting, I personally like the look of the seattle public library (and the "hideous" arts center in cincinatti, although i agree the madison building is uninspired).
		And to those of you who have wondered how it would affect Seattle street interaction, the location of the library is outside the main shopping/pedestrian traffic area.
	www.cyburbia.org /forums/showthread.php?t=10537 (2224 words)

	Rem Koolhaas OMA - Seattle Public Library :: arcspace.com
		The new Seattle Public Library houses the library's main collection of books, government publications, periodicals, audio visual materials and the technology to access and distribute information from the physical collection online.
		The entrance level on 4th Street, one of Seattle's main thoroughfares, houses the Children's Library and foreign-language resources.
		Koolhaas sees the new library as a custodian of the book, a showcase for new information, a place for thought, discussion and reflection - a dynamic presence.
	www.arcspace.com /architects/koolhaas/Seattle (338 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: The Sky Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When the library on Fifth Avenue was finished, in 1911, a grand library that was free to the public was still a fresh, almost radical notion, and the architecture was intended to give it gravitas.
		But she had no interest in a traditional building: “This is the first library of the twenty-first century.” Jacobs analyzed every aspect of the library’s operations, and insisted that there be no compromise in accommodating them.
		The architects presented the building as a reinvention of the idea of the public library, which in many ways it is. Their greatest achievement, though, is not in reinventing the library but in reaffirming it.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/skyline?040524crsk_skyline (1458 words)

	UrbanPlanet.org > Seattle's New Library
		Jul 19 2004, 04:13 AM The Project for Pubic Places has said this library is a failure in terms of connecting with the rest of the city.
		This library has a bunch of cool spaces, and a great view of the city from all directions.
		The Project for Pubic Places has said this library is a failure in terms of connecting with the rest of the city.
	www.urbanplanet.org /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t4215.html (943 words)

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