Tens of thousands of book lovers and architecture fans are expected to turn out Sunday for the grand opening of the new Seattle public library.
The 10-story glass-and-steel building was designed by Pritzker prize-winning architect Rem Koolhaas and his firm.
The unconventional building not only pushes the defnition of what a library looks like, it also expands the way a library functions.
Marcie Sillman of member station KUOW reports.
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