Summer of Learning: Make a Splash!
- 9,000 kids and teens learned STEAM skills
Global Reading Challenge
- 69 Seattle Public School District elementary schools participated
- 23nd year of the program
- 4,100+ 4th and 5th -graders read 10 books
- The winner: Bryant Elementary
Homework Help
- 11 Library locations
- 12,199 students attended Homework Help sessions
Story times
- 2,182 story times in English
- 390 story times were offered in Mandarin, Spanish, Somali, Arabic and Vietnamese
- The total attendance for story times in 2018 was 77,671
Other key initiatives in 2018
- 1,100 teens had their borrowing privileges restored thanks to Fresh Start, a fine forgiveness program
- During the 2017-2018 school year, our Raising A Reader program served over 1,600 children ages 18 months to 6 years and their families