Branches: Downtown

Location

906 West Main Avenue
Spokane, WA 99201
(corner Lincoln St. and Main Ave.)
See map above!

Phone Contacts

Reception: (509) 444-5300
(509) 444-5373 (TDD Reference)

Hours of Operation

Open Days:
Mondays: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Tuesdays: 10:00 am - 8:00 pm
Wednesdays: 10:00 am - 8:00 pm
Thursdays: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Fridays: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Saturdays: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Closed Days:
Sundays

Northwest Room Hours

Mondays: Closed
Tuesdays: 1:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Wednesdays: 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Thursdays: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Fridays: 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Saturdays: 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm

For bus route and schedule information, call the Spokane Transit Authority at (509) 328-7433.

Parking is available under the library for $.75 per half-hour for the first two half-hours and $1.00 per half-hour after that with a daily maximum of $8.00.

General Information

• Downtown Library Opened: January 1994
• Square footage: 116,885
• Architect(s): Northwest Architectural Company, Spokane, WA
• GHA(Thomas Hacker & Associates) PC, Portland, OR

Staff

• Branch Manager: Dennis Fredrickson
• Youth Services: Sumi Shadduck

Computers

• Public access catalogs: 26
• 1-Hour Reservable Internet Computers: 23
• 30-Minute Express Internet Computers: 8
• Reference Only PC: 1

Special features

• Three works of permanent public art
• Museum quality gallery
• Children's wing
• Underground, 52-space parking lot. There is a charge for parking.
• Three public meeting rooms (varying sizes and amenities)
• Gates computer lab
• Skywalk connection to shopping and restaurants
• Wireless Internet access

Special collections:

• Reference
• Federal, state, and municipal documents
• Northwest (please note specific hours listed above)
• Genealogy
• Periodicals (newspapers, magazines, pamphlets)
• Youth Services
• Funding Resources
• Microforms
• Historical photographs and memorabilia