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Seattle Public Library

The Seattle Public Library is the public library system serving Seattle, Washington, USA. It was officially established by the city in 1890, though there had been efforts to start a Seattle library as early as 1868. There are 26 branches in the system, most of them named after the neighborhoods in which they are located. Wikipedia*

On the C-SPAN Networks:
Seattle Public Library has hosted 4 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2004 Speech. The year with the highest average number of views per video was 2017 with an average of 5,601 views per video.

Recent Programs

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    What It Is

    Author and professor Clifford Thompson talked about his book, What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blue, in…

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    Free Women, Free Men

    Camille Paglia talked about her compilation of essays, Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism, in which explores feminis…

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    Roads to Quoz

    William Least Heat-Moon talked about Roads to Quoz: An American Mosey (Little, Brown and Company; October 29, 2008). In his f…

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    Historical Guide to Choosing a President

    Presidential Historian, Richard Norton Smith, spoke at the Seattle Public Library about the history of voting for a President…

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