Volume 4: December 18, 2008 for the WSL Updates mailing list

Topics include:

1) HOLIDAY SCHEDULE FOR WSL UPDATES

2) ENUMCLAW IS THE NEWEST COLLECTION ON WASHINGTON RURAL HERITAGE

3) NEW PROQUEST CONTENT FOR WASHINGTON LIBRARIES

4) DIGITIZED NEWSPAPERS AT WSL

5) FIRST TUESDAYS JAN 13 FEATURES WASHINGTON RURAL HERITAGE

6) VIDEO ON COLLECTION RESCUE IN THE CASE OF DISASTER

7) MAIL HANDLING SAFETY

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1) HOLIDAY SCHEDULE FOR WSL UPDATES

There will be no issue of WSL Updates for the next two weeks. We will return in January. Best wishes for your celebration of the holiday season. May you and yours find peace and joy awaiting you in the New Year.

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2) ENUMCLAW IS THE NEWEST COLLECTION ON WASHINGTON RURAL HERITAGE

Washington Rural Heritage is excited to announce the publication of our latest collection, Enumclaw Heritage, www.washingtonruralheritage.org/enumclaw, a collaboration between the Enumclaw Public Library and the Enumclaw Plateau Historical Museum. The collection explores the community’s rich dairy and logging history through photographs, scrapbooks, oral histories and artifacts.

Search the collection using our handy map feature, www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/ruralmap, and read about some of our favorite items in the collection on our blog, blogs.sos.wa.gov/wrh.

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3) NEW PROQUEST CONTENT FOR WASHINGTON LIBRARIES

ProQuest and the WSL Statewide Database Licensing Project are pleased to announce new content to the statewide database package to compensate libraries for the loss of The Seattle Times. Starting now, ProQuest has added to all Washington SDL accounts the complete ProQuest Newsstand (over 500 newspaper titles, with more than 350 in full text) and World Conflicts Today (an “add-on” to CultureGrams that provides in-depth profiles of ten conflicts).

To access World Conflicts Today, visit www.worldconflictstoday.com; access and authentication should work the same as for CultureGrams. The ProQuest Newsstand has been added to the existing standard ProQuest platform database package accounts.

For more information on the ProQuest Newsstand, including a complete title list, see www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/newsstand. For more information on World Conflicts Today, visit www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/conflicts. If you have questions about this announcement, please contact Will Stuivenga [email protected] 360-704-5217 or Ahniwa Ferrari [email protected] 360-570-5587 or toll free 866-538-4996.

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4) DIGITIZED NEWSPAPERS AT WSL

The Washington State Library recently awarded OCLC (Online Computer Library Center, Inc.) the contract to digitize 100,000 newspaper images from microfilm as part of the Washington State Library’s (WSL) National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) grant. NDNP is a national program to digitize historic US newspapers of record. The grant is funded by the National Endowment for Humanities and managed by the Library of Congress.

For more information contact WSL’s NDNP coordinator, Laura Robinson, [email protected], 360-570-5568. To read more about the OCLC contract and WSL’s NDNP grant please visit our blog: blogs.sos.wa.gov/digitization/?cat=14.

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5) FIRST TUESDAYS JAN 13 FEATURES WASHINGTON RURAL HERITAGE

The First Tuesdays guest speakers on Jan. 13, 2009, at 9:00 a.m. for an hour, will be Evan Robb and Kirsten Furl of the Washington State Library, discussing the Washington Rural Heritage Program. See www.sos.wa.gov/quicklinks/tuesday for a further description of the January program. Also the archived recording of the December First Tuesdays program, on the Washington Talking Book & Braille Library, is now available at the same site, with links to this and earlier programs on the right side of the page.

The First Tuesdays free webinar will be available on Jan. 13 at webj.horizonwimba.com, Washington Training Room 1. First Tuesdays began as a service to small and rural libraries, but those from any library are welcome to take part. Branch staff should first check with supervisors.If you have never participated in any Wimba session, you will need to go through a quick set-up wizard first. For more information, contact Susan Barrett, [email protected] or toll free 1-866-538-4996.

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6) VIDEO ON COLLECTION RESCUE IN THE CASE OF DISASTER

A video of the demonstration training exercise in the rescue of collections in case of disaster which was shown at the conference IFLA PAC of March, 2008 in Lausanne is now on-line at www.cosadoca.ch/en/. (Use the link without the last “en” if you should wish to watch it in French.) COSADOCA is Consortium de Sauvetage du Patrimoine Documentaire en cas de Catastrophe.

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7) MAIL HANDLING SAFETY

There have been news stories again recently of letters containing a white powder, dangerous or not, being received at public agencies. Some links to various sites detailing tips for mail handling safety can be found at intra.ga.wa.gov/mailInfo/index.html.