Simplifying Your Life | The Office

If you want to simplify your life, where do you start? Follow Clara’s lead on how to clean and organize your home one room at a time! Lesson 4 | The Office Start simplifying your life with the office! Walk with Clara … Continued →


Vendors Offering Temporary, Remote Access for Free

Many online service vendors are offering free or extended access of their products while communities are in self-isolation. Here’s a list of resources that we have so far: Ancestry Library Edition genealogy database is usually only accessible from within a library … Continued →


Community Colleges of Spokane (CCS)

Welcome to Spokane Public Library, Community Colleges of Spokane! You now have free access to all of SPL’s online and physical information. By logging in with your Bigfoot account, you’ll have a fine free library card at your fingertips. Visit My … Continued →


Let’s beat the bed bug

Bed bugs do not discriminate on the grounds of income or housing status–bed bugs are a community problem in all public spaces. Hotels, office buildings, stores, theaters, and yes, libraries, all face the challenge of bed bugs. There is a … Continued →


City of Spokane Employees

Welcome to Spokane Public Library, Spokane City Employees! You now have free access to all of SPL’s online and physical information. By logging in with your city email, you’ll have a fine free library card at your fingertips. Click on … Continued →


Books for Babies

This week we launched an exciting new program. Starting in mid-August, all newborns born at area hospitals (Deaconess, Sacred Heart, Holy Family and the Spokane Midwives Birthing Center) will go home with their very own Spokane Public Library card and a … Continued →


Book Club Kits

Are you in a book club and looking for a new book to read? The search is over! We offer book club kits, sponsored by the Friends of Spokane Public Library. Each bag contains: 8-10 copies of one title Book summary Discussion questions Tips … Continued →


Digital Media: Streaming Children’s Books

Stream animated, talking children’s books from any internet-connected device. TumbleBook Library includes children’s fiction, non-fiction, and foreign language titles, math stories, read-alongs, videos, TumbleTV (pre-set playlists of a sequence of books), puzzles, and games. Access Tumblebook Library now → Getting … Continued →


Digital Lending: Streaming Media

Stream movies, TV, audiobooks, ebooks, comics, or music to your computer or mobile device. hoopla is the library’s streaming media service. As long as you have an internet connection, you can instantly view movies or television episodes, read ebooks or … Continued →