From Our Corner
Spotlight on Success: Kiona-Benton City Heritage
Nice job on the part of Beth Kauer from the Benton City Library promoting their new digital collection at the recent Washington Library Association… Read more
Clippings for the week of April 8, 2011
WA State Library News The Odessa Public Library has partnered with the Odessa Historic Museum and the Odessa High School to identify and research items housed at the museum that pertain to the founding fathers of Odessa and earliest history of the Odessa Township and surrounding area. Evan Robb is in Odessa for several days courtesy of the Washington State Library, to help with the museum project that partnered with the State Library. (Photo) (Odessa Record, 3.10.11) A visiting actress… Read moreLibrary Legislation Tracker - April 15, 2011
Courtesy of the Legislative Planning Committee, Washington Library Association Library Related Legislation. The Washington Library Association (WLA) tracks state legislative activity that will potentially affect Washington Libraries. Their tracker is posted to the WLA web site and we will also post it weekly on this blog. For information on the legislative process or becoming involved, see the WLA site referenced above. Click below to view the tracker… Read moreSam's college civics tour: Day 4
Image During his visit Thursday morning to Spokane Community College, Secretary Reed spoke during the "Get Lit" program at the college. He discussed leadership and his own experiences in leadership positions. About 200 students attended.… Read more
Lawmakers OK Reed military voting bill, earlier primary
Image Washington lawmakers have voted to move the state's primary election two weeks earlier and to make it easier for our military and overseas voters to cast ballots electronically.… Read more
Will Senate ax money-saving program??
Image As everyone anticipated, the two-year operating budget plan offered by the Senate this week has plenty of cuts. That’s expected since the Legislature has to fix a $5 billion-plus budget deficit. But one cut in the Senate spending plan that raised… Read more
Senate Budget Favors Washington State Library
Image The Senate announced its budget Tuesday night. It is much more friendly to the Heritage Center and the Washington State Library than the House budget. (An amendment that passed in House Ways and Means removed the State Library and Legacy Project from a… Read more
WSL Updates for April 14, 2011
Volume 7, April 14, 2011 for the WSL Updates mailing list Topics include: 1) WASHINGTON NEWSPAPERS ON MICROFILM 2) 2011 IS DÍA’S BIG YEAR! 3) LOVE. TALK. PLAY. 4) ENRICH YOUR LIBRARY 5) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) WASHINGTON NEWSPAPERS ON MICROFILM The Washington State Library routinely microfilms Washington newspapers as part of its mission to preserve and make… Read more
Sam’s college civics tour: Day 3
Image Secretary Reed has been in Central Washington Wednesday as he continues his visits to college campuses across the state this week. Here he’s standing with students and others at Wenatchee Valley College's Omak branch campus. No… Read more
WA Senate releases bipartisan budget plan
Image The Washington Senate has released a bipartisan budget plan for the next two years, a $32.1 billion proposal that closes a multibillion-dollar spending gap with a broad array of spending cuts and freezes, but no new general taxes. For the first time in memory, the proposal was rolled out by both the majority budget chairman, Democrat Ed Murray of Seattle, and the… Read moreApril 12: A painful date in U.S. history
Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen a lot of media coverage and discussion about the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. In fact, the war began on this day in 1861 when Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina. What many people might not realize is that April 12 is also the date when President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in Georgia in 1945, just a few months before World War II ended. Roosevelt, our nation’s 32nd president, was early in his fourth term as… Read more
Sam’s college civics tour: Day 2
Image On Tuesday, Secretary Reed continued his annual college civics tour across the state encouraging students to vote and become civically engaged in their communities. One of the stops he made today was at Everett Community College where its slogan… Read more
Apple Blossom Festival royalty pays visit
The 2011 Washington State Apple Blossom Festival’s Royal Court stopped by the Office of Secretary of State during its visit to Olympia Tuesday. A big hit for the trio was learning how to operate the official… Read more
Coyote Ridge’s Melissa Gilbert on serving AA students through a prison library
[caption id="attachment_5332" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Melisa Gilbert "] Image [/caption] Melissa Gilbert, Branch Manager at Coyote Ridge Correctional Center (CRCC) was recently interviewed by Moving Forward the CRCC Education… Read more
SNAPSHOT: a day in the life of the Washington State Library
Today is Washington Library Snapshot Day! Hundreds of libraries throughout Washington State are collecting photos, stories and statistics, offering a glimpse into a single day in the life of their organization. Are you a customer of the Washington State Library or one of its branches? Are you a Washington library worker who has been served by one of the State Library's programs?… Read more
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Washington State Library staff member Laura Robinson works with a volunteer indexing historic newspapers of Washington State.
Whether you regularly use a library or just occasionally visit one, you know and… Read moreSam’s college civics tour: Day 1
Image On Monday, Secretary Reed began his annual college civics tour in which he visits many college campuses throughout Washington and encourages students to vote and become engaged in their communities. His first day included stops at Green River… Read more
Wee bit o' good news: WA tax collections up $5 million
Image Washington’s wobbly economy has generated an unexpected $5.1 million in tax collections over the past month, exceeding the projections of last month’s revenue forecast. That’s not much in the context of a $32 billion two-year state budget and there are still plenty of warning signs on the horizon as the state weathers both national and international concerns, says a new report… Read moreLibrary Legislation Tracker - April 11, 2011
Courtesy of the Legislative Planning Committee, Washington Library Association Library Related Legislation. The Washington Library Association (WLA) tracks state legislative activity that will potentially affect Washington Libraries. Their tracker is posted to the WLA web site and we will also post it weekly on this blog. For information on the legislative process or becoming involved, see the WLA site referenced above. Click below to view the tracker… Read moreSecretary of State
Steve Hobbs
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