Photo courtesy of Washington State Archives
As expected, a large crowd of union workers and other demonstrators descended on the State Capitol Friday to protest possible state operating budget cuts. (The House this afternoon… Read moreFULL SERVICE WILL RESUME ON FRIDAY, APRIL 15TH WA State Library News One way or another, budget writers in the Legislature are moving closer to saving the Washington State History Museum in downtown Tacoma, along with the state’s other history museums, from cuts laid out by the governor. Critics Thursday focused on the plan’s potential effect on the State Library, which would be removed from Reed’s office and consolidated into the new department. Patrons of the Washington Talking Book and… Read more
Volume 7, April 7, 2011 for the WSL Updates mailing list
Topics include:
1) MATH AND SCIENCE LITERACY TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANS
2) TARGET STORE GRANTS SUPPORT READING PROGRAMS
3) IFFLA SOCIAL MEDIA SURVEY
4) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK
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1) MATH AND SCIENCE LITERACY TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANS
The Washington… Read more
The Washington Senate has given strong approval to a plan by Secretary of State Sam Reed, a Republican, and Gov. Chris Gregoire, a Democrat, to suspend the 2012 presidential primary in order to save over $10 million. The Senate voted 34-15 to approve a one-time suspension of the presidential primary. A number of senators on both sides of the issue said they vastly favor the primary over the old caucus system that… Read more
Decked out in a Union general’s uniform from the Civil War, Secretary Reed addresses the crowd gathered Tuesday night for the grand opening of the new, privately funded exhibit on Isaac Stevens, Washington Territory’s first governor who later was a Civil War general. The exhibit will be displayed through February 2012.… Read more
Photograph courtesy of Benjamin Helle, Washington State Archives.
Yesterday, just a day before the prison closed, staffers from State Archives and other historical societies took a tour… Read moreVolume 7, March 31, 2011 for the WSL Updates mailing list
Topics include:
1) RESOURCE SHARING GRANT Q&A SESSION
2) FIRST TUESDAYS - SEARCH THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
3) FUNDING FOR LIBRARY SUPPORT STAFF CERTIFICATION
4) NEW YORK TIMES AVAILABLE THROUGH LIBRARIES
5) MAKING SENSE OF THE CIVIL WAR
6) CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK (SOME FREE, SOME NOT)
… Read moreCourtesy 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.
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Image A bill in the House (HB 2033) that would take the State Library and the Legacy Project (oral history) out of the Secretary of State's office and place them in a combined Department of Heritage, Arts and Culture (HAC), along with the two Historical… Read more
Volume 7, March 24, 2011 for the WSL Updates mailing list Topics include: 1) WASHINGTON’S LETTERS ABOUT LITERATURE WINNERS 2) RESOURCE SHARING GRANT Q&A SESSION 3) BASIC WEB-BASED REFERENCE (LIBRARYU) 4) YES TO LIBRARIES! 5) COPIES OF TOBIAS WOLF’S OLD SCHOOL AVAILABLE 6) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) WASHINGTON’S LETTERS ABOUT LITERATURE WINNERS The judging for… Read more
Photo courtesy of Washington State Archives
This aerial photo shows downtown Olympia during the late 1940s. Note that the Capitol Campus (in the distance) at that time did not have… Read more
