So, now that you have a collection, what are some creative ways to evaluate, use, and grow your collections to better serve your customers/patrons/members?
Join us for the 2008 OCLC Western Digital Forum in Tacoma, WA, August 14-15.
It will be held at the… Read more
[caption id="attachment_67" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Dionne Quintuplets advertisement"][/caption] Whitman County Heritage is the latest collection in Washington Rural Heritage to go live. The Whitman County Heritage collection was created… Read more
[caption id="attachment_74" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Home of Jim Crook at British Camp - now San Juan National Park"][/caption] Last week I was working on a project with Laura Tretter and her crew at the… Read more
[caption id="attachment_78" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Excuse our dust, San Juan Historical Museum"][/caption] I had to laugh at this sign that was hanging outside one of out buildings at the … Read more
Wheat has been a bumper crop in Eastern Washington--especially the last few years. As I've traveled, I've seen many miles of the golden crop--almost making it seem I've been transported to somewhere in the Midwest US. Record prices have made the crop a topic of conversation in many towns like Ritzville, WA. The large grain elevators in Ritzville "link the town to… Read more
It is scheduled for June 4-6, 2008, and… Read more
Congratulations to the following libraries who were awarded LSTA grants through the Washington Rural Heritage initiative.
This coin is an item from the Ritzville Public Library. 이미지 It is part of the library's… Read more
[caption id="attachment_118" align="alignright" width="288" caption="On the road somewhere between Ritzville and Colfax, WA"] 이미지 [/caption] The… Read more
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