From Our Corner
Senate passes key elections bill
Image Legislation that would help ensure that our state’s military and overseas voters can vote in our elections has cleared a key hurdle. The Senate voted 47-1 Friday morning to pass this important elections bill requested by Secretary Reed.… Read more
100 million documents!
Image Remember when McDonald’s had signs many years ago saying “billions served”? Well, our Washington State Digital Archives has reached its own milestone that’s worth some bragging. It now has preserved 100 million electronic records since… Read more
Help Review Database Products for WA Libraries
The Statewide Database Licensing (SDL) project requests your assistance in reviewing database products to help determine which products will be available to Washington libraries for the next several years. Reviews will need to be completed between March 14 and March 31, 2011. Scoring from these reviews is crucial to the selection process, and will contribute significantly to the overall scores assigned to each vendor's proposal(s).
Vendors can propose products in one or more of… Read more
'Not in our House' for new State Song?
Image Dozens of initiatives are filed in Washington every year, ranging from the ultra-serious to the funny and frivolous conversation-starters. Kristopher Brannon of Tacoma, the "Sonics Guy," has just filed little plan to change the official Washington State Song from… Read more
Miracle Library – North Fork Community Library
From the desk of Rand Simmons Sunday, February 27 I traveled to Kendall Washington for the grand opening of the North Fork Community Library, formerly the Maple Falls Library but renamed Image when a new building was constructed across… Read more
WSL Updates for March 3, 2011
Volume 7, March 3, 2011 for the WSL Updates mailing list
Topics include:
1) WASHINGTON RURAL HERITAGE GRANT CYCLE OPENS
2) NEW SUPPORTING STUDENT SUCCESS GRANT CYCLE OPENING
3) HELP REVIEW DATABASE PRODUCTS FOR WA LIBRARIES
4) CELEBRATE NATIONAL BOOKMOBILE DAY
5) MONEY SMART WEEK IN WASHINGTON
6) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK
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A Folksinger Came Along
From the desk of Rand Simmons Bob N Image elson is a folksinger, concert performer, occasional teacher and archivist. You can read about him on the Pacific Northwest Folklore Society web site. Bob is a Co-Director of that organization. I met Bob in January when he and his wife were doing research at the Washington State… Read moreLibrary Legislation Tracker – March 01, 2011
Image Courtesy Legislative Planning Committee, Washington Library Association Library Related Legislation. The Washington Library Association(WLA) tracks state legislative activity that will… Read more
Bing Crosby event this Saturday
Image If you want to learn more about internationally renowned entertainment icon Bing Crosby and his family, if you want to learn more about your own family’s history, or you just want a good excuse to spend a day in Spokane, Saturday is for you. “Road to Spokane… Read more
Washington Rural Heritage 2011-2012 Grant Cycle Open
Image From the desk of Evan Robb A new grant cycle is open for Washington Rural Heritage, a statewide digitization initiative for small rural libraries and partnering organizations. To date, more than… Read moreSend us a 2001 earthquake photo!
As we blogged about earlier today, this is the 10th anniversary of the Nisqually Earthquake, which shook much of Western Washington. Being the historical pack rats that we are, we’d like to collect more photographs showing the damage from that quake. If you have any photos from the Nisqually quake that you’d like to send us, we’d love to receive them. You can e-mail them either to Patrick McDonald at [email protected] or Brian Zylstra at [email protected] . If you do send… Read more
Where were you when Nisqually Earthquake struck?
It was exactly 10 years ago today when the Nisqually Earthquake struck much of Western Washington and shut down the 2001 legislative session for a couple of days. The big shake occurred at 10:54 a.m. and caused $2 billion in damage. Check out this story in yesterday’s Olympian about the 6.8-magnitude quake and its aftermath. For those of us who were in the Legislative Building on Olympia’s Capitol… Read more
Clippings, February 18, 2011
Washington State Library News Rural public libraries around the state have put together digital collections of historic items and fascinating community heritage. Access is free and online. These collections were made possible by grants from Washington Rural Heritage, an initiative of the Washington State Library. The grants are funded by the Library Services and Technology Act through the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services. (Northern Kittitas County Tribune [Cle Elum], 2.3.11… Read moreSnow and sun at the Capitol
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Photo courtesy of Benjamin Helle
Here’s a photo taken this morning showing the Legislative Building bathed in winter sunlight.Library Legislation Tracker – February 25, 2011
Image Courtesy Legislative Planning Committee, Washington Library Association Library Related Legislation. The Washington Library Association(WLA) tracks state legislative activity that will… Read more
From Your Corner of Washington: White Pass
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Photograph courtesy of Ben Helle
A beautiful winter day hitting the slopes at Washington's White Pass Ski Resort.
Secretary of State
Steve Hobbs
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