{"id":2397931,"date":"2026-05-01T16:27:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2397931"},"modified":"2026-05-01T16:27:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:27:35","slug":"seattle-public-library-sees-record-number-of-visitors-in-2025-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/seattle-public-library-sees-record-number-of-visitors-in-2025-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Public Library sees record number of visitors in 2025 | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" false=\"\">\n                                <meta itemprop=\"isAccessibleForFree\" content=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Seattle Public Library says it had a record number of visitors in 2025, according to its <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spl.org\/impact\">newly published impact report<\/a> for the year.<\/p>\n<p>That record number? More than 3.4 million in-person visits among the system\u2019s 27 locations. That\u2019s like if each of Seattle\u2019s roughly 800,000 residents went to the library more than four times a year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There were more than 330,000 active library users in 2025, the library found. People visited the Central Library alone more than 2,000 times a day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Total their checkouts, both in person and digitally, and that\u2019s 24 checkouts a minute, the library said. Visitors <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spl.org\/about-us\/library-impact\/2025-impact-report\/2025-impact-statistics\">checked out physical materials 5.5 million times and digital materials such as e-books<\/a> 7.2 million times.\u00a0SPL ranks 10th in the world for checkouts of digital books, the library said.<\/p>\n<p>The library system also hosted 5,800 programs that were attended by 130,000 people; 1,300 story times and other early literacy programs for 43,000 people; and $8.3 million worth of business services.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yakimaherald.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Public Library says it had a record number of visitors in 2025, according to its newly published impact report for the year. That record number? More than 3.4 million in-person visits among the system\u2019s 27 locations. That\u2019s like if each of Seattle\u2019s roughly 800,000 residents went to the library more than four times a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2397932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[370534],"class_list":["post-2397931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-keystfeed"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Seattle-Public-Library-sees-record-number-of-visitors-in-2025.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2397931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2397933,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397931\/revisions\/2397933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2397932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}