King County Library System Is Awesome! Let's See it All

 

Gotta Visit Them All

Algona-Pacific

Auburn

Bellevue

Black Diamond

Bothell

Boulevard Park

Burian

Carnation

Covington

Crossroads

Des Moines

Duvall

Enumclaw

Fairwood

Fall City

Federal Way 320th

Federal Way

Greenbridge

Issaquah

Kennmore 

Kent 

A big box of a room with a sense of abundance and space. There are desks and computers to the right and magazines and sitting areas on the left, including the teen corner. The children’s area is squared off by low shelving, which I would have appreciated when I showed up with four young kids. There are several nooks with chairs or tables for quiet work and a couple of meeting rooms for large and small gatherings. Not too bad.

Kent Panther Lake

Kingsgate

7Kirkland

Lake Forest Park

Lake Hills

Maple Valley

Mercer Island

Muckleshoot

Newcastle

Newport Way

(Normandy Park Lockers?)

North Bend

Redmond

Redmond Ridge Library Express?

Renton

This is our local branch where the kids and I have been going since I moved to Washington. It is built over a river and has glass walls so you can look up or downstream to see the water flow, the birds fly and paddle about, and the salmon swim. It’s as cool as it sounds. It got a major renovation a few years ago and we almost had to move it (wet lands are hard to construct on, and rivers are by definition wet) but the community ponied up the extra money so it stayed. I liked the kids section better before the renovations but I don’t have kids any more so fine. There’s a nice big meeting room, several study rooms, lots of computers and nice librarians. I approve.

Renton Highlands

Richmond Beach

Sammamish

(Service Center?)

Shoreline

Skykomish

Skyway

Snoqualmie

South Center

Tukwilla

Valley View

Vashon

White Center

Woodinville

Woodmont