The Seattle Times is featuring the new central Seattle Public Library in the Sunday, April 25th, issue of its Pacific Northwest magazine with color photos. Online it's at: <http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/pacificnw/>. Click on the "cover photo." The new library will open to the public May 23rd, but the numbers of people going through will probably make research impractical for a while. I hear they expect 30,000 the first day. Genealogy and other nonfiction books are being shelved on the long spiral ramp in Dewey Decimal order, with the 900s near the top of the spiral. We will need to check elsewhere in the spiral for 016 (indexes), 2xx (religion, including church directories), etc. Some church records are in the 9xx and some in the 2xx. There will still be the same Dewey cataloging inconsistencies and squirrelling away items for one geographic location in a couple of dozen different places. Otherwise, the prospect of doing research there sounds very exciting. Just like researching any other unfamiliar library, it will pay to have our call numbers with us. See the catalog online at: <https://catalog.spl.org/> --Ida Skarson McCormick, idamc@seanet.com, Seattle