Editing Seattle Public Library (section)

==Collections and services==
As of 2023, the Seattle Public Library contained 1.8 million physical items, with 1 million at the Central Library and 814,000 catalogued at the other 26 branches. The total physical collection includes 4.7 million printed books and other printed items; 1.2 million CDs, DVDs, and audiobooks; and 42,000 other items, including laptops, tablets, Wi-Fi hotspots, and Kill A Watt power meters.<ref name="2023 stats"/>

As of 2011, its special collections include an oral history collection, the state document depository, the federal document depository, an aviation history collection, genealogy records, and historical documents about Seattle.<ref name="ALD" /> A room on the seventh floor of the Central Library houses the ZAPP Zine Collection, over 30,000 [[zine]]s donated by [[Richard Hugo House]], where it used to constitute the [[Zine Archive and Publishing Project]] collection.<ref>{{cite periodical |title=Showcasing culture in the ZAPP Zine Room |periodical=The Next Chapter |publisher=The Seattle Public Library Foundation |date=Fall 2024 |page=5 }}</ref> In addition all locations have uncatalogued collections of books that can be borrowed without a library card.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}

The library also has extensive online resources, which as of 2023 include, among other things, access to historic archives of ''[[The Seattle Times]]'', the ''[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]]'', ''[[Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce]]'', and ''[[The New York Times]]'', as well as the [[Britannica Library]], [[Kanopy]] (video streaming), and [[ProQuest]] (academic research), plus access to several [[e-book]] collections.<ref>{{cite web |title=A-Z Online Resources |url=https://www.spl.org/online-resources/a-z-online-resources |publisher=Seattle Public Library |access-date=April 27, 2023}}</ref> In 2023, the library circulated 7.4 million digital items, including 5.5 million e-book and e-audiobooks.<ref name="2023 stats" /> Through [[Books Unbanned]], these online resources are available to youth ages 13 to 21 throughout the United States.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Álvarez |first1=Gustavo Sagrero |date=April 27, 2023 |title=Seattle joins effort to give young readers access to banned books |url=https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-joins-effort-to-give-young-readers-access-to-banned-books-80e0 |publisher=KUOW |access-date=April 27, 2023}}</ref>