One of America’s Most Literate Cities to Shut Down Library for One Week

A weeklong systemwide closure of the Seattle Public Library starts Aug. 31 and is expected to save the city $655,000 as it struggles to beat down a $43 million budget gap.

Seven-hundred employees will not be paid that week. Services will resume Tues., Sept. 8. How will it impact you? The library listed the impacts the closure will have on services; more from Seattle PI.