Editing Seattle Public Library (section)

===Late 20th century: Recession and recovery===
In the 1970s and into the 1980s, The Seattle Public Library experienced another period of tight budgets and constricted services, but the picture was never as bleak as in the Great Depression. In 1975 the Yesler Branch—earlier in danger of closing—was renamed as the [[Douglass-Truth Branch]], honoring [[Frederick Douglass]] and [[Sojourner Truth]]. That branch features an extensive [[African American]] collection.<ref name=SPL-hist />

A $2.3 million federal grant refurbished and expanded public areas of the Central Library in 1979. Another federal grant gave $1.2 million for the Rainier Beach Branch (1981). In the late 1980s, a $4.6 million project restored the Library's six Carnegie branches; this project was recognized with an honor from the [[National Trust for Historic Preservation]].<ref name=SPL-hist />

Meanwhile, capping the career of Library Board president Virginia Burnside, The Seattle Public Library Foundation was established in 1980 to increase outside financial support of the Library. By the mid-1990s, during the [[Dot-com bubble|dot-com boom]] years, annual donations exceeded $1 million, while library circulation passed 5 million items annually.<ref name=SPL-hist />