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All Sno-Isle branches were closed in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but reopened with curbside pick-up service three months later. [18] In-person services resumed at some branches in early 2021. [19] In 2024, the city government of Everett proposed a consolidation of their city libraries with Sno-Isle to address a budget deficit. [20]
The first public library in Lake Stevens opened in 1946 at the home of a local resident and moved into a former post office three years later. [119] The city government moved the library to a former pharmacy in 1985 and contracted with Sno-Isle Libraries, an inter-county system that later annexed Lake Stevens in 2008.
A 5,055-square-foot (469.6 m 2) library near downtown Arlington opened on June 28, 1981, and holds over 54,000 items. [52]: 9–12 It was originally owned by the city government and was transferred to Sno-Isle in 2021 as part of preparations for a renovation, [145] which had been planned since the 2000s.
Sno-Isle Libraries Launch Fully Integrated 3M Cloud Library System First library system in Washington to implement innovative eBook lending service ST. PAUL, Minn. & LIVERPOOL, N.Y.--(BUSINESS ...
Sno-Isle Libraries, which serves Island and Snohomish counties, opened a public library inside a temporary space on Camano Island as part of a pilot program that began in 2007. [61] A permanent library at Terry's Corner opened in August 2015 after voters on the island approved a $2.3 million bond measure to remodel a former restaurant. [62]
The Beacon Hill Branch Library is a branch of the Seattle Public Library in the Beacon Hill neighborhood.. Beacon Hill is one of five branches, all south of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, that saw declining use in the 2010s, possibly because job-seekers in the city's less affluent southern half had been using libraries during Seattle's 2008-2012 recession.
The Washington Territorial Library was established on March 2, 1853, with the signing of the Organic Act by President Millard Fillmore to create Washington Territory.The law included an appropriation of $5,000 for the territory library that was used by appointed Territorial Governor Issac Stevens to buy and ship 2,130 volumes from New York City to Olympia.
The Seattle Central Library is the flagship library of the Seattle Public Library system. The 11-story (185 feet or 56.9 meters high) glass and steel building in the downtown core of Seattle , Washington was opened to the public on May 23, 2004.