Outreach Services offered at King County Library System
Regular stops are made by Traveling Library Center (TLC) vans at housing projects, nursing homes, retirement homes and child care facilities throughout King County outside the city of Seattle. Annotated lists of staff-selected large print books are available. Techlab mobile classroom travels to community, youth and senior centers. The Bellevue, Bothell, Burien, Federal Way, Kent and Shoreline branches have a specially adapted computer which magnifies the library system's computerized catalog and which also has a synthesizer that can "read" the computer screens to you. The Traveling Library Center also has access to materials in many languages. Printed materials may be available by request in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Marathi, Punjabi, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.
Physical Address
960 Newport Way Northwest, Issaquah, WA 98027
Hours
M-F, 8:30am-5pm, for days, times and locations of TLC stops.
Voice
Website
Application process
Library cards are required to check out materials. Patrons may apply for a library card at any KCLS library. Homebound patrons can apply for service by calling the Traveling Library Center.
Fee
None. There are no late fees for overdue materials.
Eligibility
Residents of most cities and unincorporated areas in King County. Does not serve city of Seattle.
Agency info
King County Library System
Operates 49 public libraries, one institutional outlet, and mobile library services serving day care centers, community centers and low-income housing facilities.