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• IT Academy
• Library Now (Boopsie app)

• Gadget menageries (staff training), ARSL scholarships, First Tuesdays
• Central Skagit Rural library district advice on getting organized
• Trustee wiki
• Washington Rural heritage (teaches local libraries and historical institutions digitization and cataloguing skills for the presentation

• Washington Talking Book and Braille Library, institutional libraries found in hospitals and prison
• Genealogical resources focused on the Pacific Northwest,
• Best collection of historical newspapers collection which are a great boon for researcher and students need access to primary sources for common core requirements.
• Providing access through indexing to primary sources needed by businesses (weather data, historical statisitics, population)

• Statewide database licensing
• Washington Anytime library
• Ask-WA

Dear Carolyn, I’d like to share a story with you about one of my summer reading programs (Editor's note: Washington State Library supports this). I had a 12 year old boy in my teen program. He is in special education for all of his classes. I encouraged his mom to let him be part of the teen program. I told her to keep track of what he read. I said she could also read to him and that it would count. He came to our program mostly to check out books and turn in his reading list. He seemed to be wary of interacting with the other teens. At the end of our program we have a pizza party and give out awards. This boy won the top prize for reading the most books and he was very proud. My daughter has the boy in her class and when school started she said that he was raising his hand and answering the teachers questions. She went on to say that he never used to talk in class. I received a phone call from his mother and she said that because of our program he has a new sense of confidence. He wasn’t fighting her on homework and he was taking the initiative to work on homework first without asking for help. The mother thanked me profusely. I give credit for the success of the summer reading program to the extra books that I have received during the interlocal grant, (Editor's note: WSL grant Connecting Libraries through Resource Sharing) where the libraries rotate their collection every three months. We had the newest, coolest books to offer the kids to read that summer. I have an extremely small budget and our library runs mostly on donations. The new books made the teen program. The kids got very excited about new series that are the ‘must reads’. I wanted to thank the Washington State Library for making these grants available.