Douglass-Truth Branch

This is the branch with the Library's extensive African American collection, housed alongside a wing added in 2006. It opened life as the Yesler Branch, was at one point in danger of closing, and was renamed in 1975 for Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth. Check the day before you go: in past schedule reductions it was Saturdays that came off the calendar here.

Current Status

Open

Hours

www.spl.org/hours-and-locations

Study Rooms Available

Yes

Category: Study & Work Spots

Tags: african american collection, central district, 2006 wing

Coordinates: 47.6019269, -122.3016706

Part of Seattle's public library branches

Related collections

• Munich's Stadtbibliothek branches — Munich, Germany · 20 locations
• Hamburg's Bücherhallen — Hamburg, Germany · 14 locations
• London reading rooms open to non members — London, United Kingdom · 9 locations
• Lyon's public swimming pools, the ones the city runs — Lyon, France · 10 locations
• Lisbon's cervejarias trading for half a century or more — Lisbon, Portugal · 5 locations
• The lambic brewers and blenders of HORAL, Belgium's guild of traditional lambic — Belgium · 14 locations