The coolest public library in Southeast Alaska. Sitka Public Library (formerly Kettleson Memorial Library), the public library for Sitka, Alaska, has been serving the city and borough of Sitka since March 20, 1923, when it opened under the name of Sitka Public Library.

The library was moved to its current location in 1968 after a gift from Theodore Kettleson, a San Diego resident and shareholder in Sitka Cold Storage.

The library receives about 100,000 guests annually and houses a collection of 200,000 books, audiobooks, music recordings, reference resources, and DVDs, as well as an assortment of Alaskan and national periodicals. Its annual circulation is 133,000. It has the largest per capita circulation in the state of Alaska of towns with a population of more than 2,500 people.