Let’s remember when King County Library System celebrated its opening of a branch inside of Southcenter Mall, on this day in 2004 (June 5)

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It’s like Barnes & Noble, except you don’t have to pay for books.

HistoryLink tells us:

On Saturday, June 5, 2004, the Library Connection @ Southcenter, a storefront library at the Westfield Southcenter Mall in Tukwila, holds its official opening celebration. The innovative 3,168-square-foot library, part of the King County Library System (KCLS), occupies a retail store space in the state’s largest shopping mall. The opening celebration on Saturday afternoon features refreshments, balloon animals for children, and Story Time readings by local police and firefighters. The mall library will prove highly popular, and it will be renovated and enlarged in 2012. Plans in 2017 call for nearly doubling the size of the Southcenter Library.

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Library Connection @ Southcenter, a storefront library at the Westfield Southcenter Mall, holds…