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[caption id="attachment_4362" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Appreciation in action"] Image [/caption] I’ve worked for Washington State Library at Clallam Bay Corrections Center for 17 years. I love what I do, but it isn’t always… Read more

Hundreds gather on the Capitol steps

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Photograph courtesy of Ben Helle

Hundreds gathered on the front steps of the State Capitol today for Refugee and Immigrant Legislative Day. An estimated 1,200 -… Read more

ILS Snapshot Day Team – Team of the Quarter!

Image From the desk of Rand Simmons Three of the newer members of the Washington State Library Institutional Library Service (ILS) program suggested a plan that would take advantage of social networking sites and the American Library Association's (ALA) National Snapshot Day to highlight library services within the state's… Read more

WSL Updates for February 10, 2011

Volume 7, February 10, 2011 for the WSL Updates mailing list

Topics include:

1) SDL RFP RELEASED

2) WASHINGTON NEWSPAPERS ON MICROFILM

3) SUMMER READING EARLY LITERACY PROGRAM

4) FREE MICROSOFT OFFICE COURSES

5) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK

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1) SDL RFP RELEASED

The Washington State Library, a… Read more

WSL SDL RFP released

That little soupçon of alphabet soup is supposed to indicate the following: The Washington State Library (WSL), a division of the Office of the Secretary of State, announces the release of a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the Statewide Database Licensing (SDL) project. The RFP seeks vendors to provide databases in one of three categories:

A database package of primarily full text magazine… Read more

EWU football: We are the champions!

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Pictured from left to right holding the NCAA Division I Championship Trophy: EWU Director of Athletics Bill Chaves, Secretary of State Sam Reed, and EWU head football coach Beau… Read more

Honoring workers with money-saving ideas

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Secretary Reed (third from left) with some of the honorees

Fourteen state employees recently were honored for their ideas that resulted in over $1 million in savings last year at the annual Innovations in State Government Awards ceremony in Secretary… Read more

Library Legislation Tracker – February 4, 2011

Courtesy 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 more

Clippings, January 28, 2011

Library News Sno-Isle Libraries are frequently asked if there is a fax machine a customer can use. Sno-Isle has installed self-service fax equipment at the Lynnwood and Granite Falls libraries as a pilot project. Using a debit card or credit fax cash card, customers follow simple instructions to send, not receive, a fax. The cost is $1.50 for the first page and $1 per additional page. (Millcreek View, 1.2011) More than 200 people showed up for the grand opening of the Kelso Public Library… Read more

Clippings, January 21, 2011

Washington State Library The Office of the Secretary of State and Washington State Archives announce the addition of an interactive online resource titled “Public Officials and Public Records.” It is intended to introduce newly elected and newly appointed public officials to the new world of public records and their new responsibilities. The online guide can be access by going to this link: http://bit.ly/gr8z02. (Northern Kittitas County Tribune [Cle… Read more

Are you ready for some football?!

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Photo courtesy of Washington State Archives

In honor of the Packers-Steelers Super Bowl this Sunday, we asked the State Archives folks to find some cool, historic football-related photos. This one stands out. Taken on December 29… Read more

WA House OKs military voting bill

Image The Washington House has voted unanimously in favor of a bill championed by Secretary of State Sam Reed to help our military and overseas voters. Senate committee action on a… Read more

From Your Corner of Washington: Skokomish River

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Photograph courtesy of Christina Rhoads

This picture taken from a steel bridge overlooking the Skokomish River in the Olympic National Forest.

Library Snapshot Day at Stafford Creek

[caption id="attachment_4295" align="alignright" width="216" caption="Jeannie Remillard helps some patrons at the library."] [/caption] All in all a very successful day! I feel like it was a day that promoted our library in a very positive way to everyone here at Stafford Creek. I think business has really picked up since that day...we are… Read more

Library Snapshot Day in review at Washington Corrections Center for Women

[caption id="attachment_4292" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Patrons of the Washington Corrections Center for Women Library"] Image [/caption] I was very nervous on 1/10/11 about Library Snapshot Day. A lot of things can go wrong in a prison library setting… Read more

Listen to Reed's 2011 legislative package

Listen to Secretary of State Sam Reed describe in-depth his 2011 legislative package. It covers four elections-related bills:

• Moving the state’s Primary date to early August to help military and overseas voters, and allowing such voters to use fax or e-mail to return their ballots (SB 5171 and HB 1080)

• Requiring ballots to be in by Election Day (… Read more

WSL Updates for February 3, 2011

Volume 7, February 3, 2011 for the WSL Updates mailing list

Topics include:

1) WSL OFFERS ONLINE TRUSTEE ORIENTATION

2) SUPPORT FOR CATALOGING COLLECTIONS AND ARCHIVES

3) SNAPDRAGON FUNDS SCHOOL LIBRARIES

4) PERCEPTIONS OF LIBRARIES 2010

5) YA READING FOR PLEASURE GRANTS

6) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES

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Dome sees shadow; 6 more weeks of winter?

Image With today being Groundhog Day, many are curious to know if that small, furry mammal in Pennsylvania saw its shadow. It did not,… Read more

Tax the Unmarried, Pay for Social Security

[caption id="attachment_4254" align="alignright" width="504" caption="Suggest Tax for All the Unmarried. Tacoma Times, September 30, 1910, Second Section, Page 9"] Image [/caption] From the pages of the… Read more

Lura Powell sworn in as Redistricting Commission Chair

Lura Powell was sworn in as the non-voting Chair of the Redistricting Commission today in the Secretary of State's Office.