From Our Corner

Clippings, January 7, 2011

Washington State Library News Librarian Cathy Miller spent last Monday and Tuesday in Tacoma with a group of library directors, as well as Washington State Library and NoaNet employees, discussing how to make the most effective use of high-speed broadband connections that are being made available through stimulus funds. Five libraries in Lincoln County are eligible for enhanced broadband connections. All expenses of this conference were paid for by the Gates Foundation. (Wilbur Register, 12.… Read more

Library Legislation Tracker – January 14, 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

Clallam Bay Corrections Center Library makes the news

Image Clallam Bay Corrections Center Library participated in Library Snap Shot Day along with all the other institutional libraries in Washington State. Now they share the headlines with elk in the Forks Forum 1/2011 v.17: no.1.

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Electronic Resources for Library Users: Survey Report and Complete Results

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Redistricting panel soon launches 2011 map-drawing

Image The four voting members of the 2011 Washington Redistricting Commission -- two Democrats and two Republicans -- will be sworn in by Chief Justice Barbara Madsen in the chief’s reception room in the Temple of Justice in Olympia at 10 a.m.… Read more

See great photos inside libraries

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Photo courtesy of Washington State Library

No matter what type we’re talking, people who use their libraries like them a lot, whether it’s a library down the… Read more

WSL Updates for January 13, 2011

Volume 7, January 13, 2011 for the WSL Updates mailing list

Topics include:

1) NEW DIGITAL COLLECTION - NORTH PEND OREILLE HERITAGE

2) LIBRARY SNAPSHOT DAY FEATURES WSL ILS

3) FIRST TUESDAYS - WTBBL NEEDS YOU!

4) WASHINGTON LIBRARIES HELP JOB SEEKERS

5) BOOKS FOR CHILDREN GRANTS

6) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK

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ILS Library Snapshot Day

Image The Washington State Library's Institutional Library Services (ILS) team hosted their very own Library Snapshot Day yesterday (1/11/11). Photos and stories from the event are being posted on Facebook, and you can find them under: ILS Library Snap Shot Day. Photos and… Read more

Secretary Reed's response to Top 2 ruling

Listen to Secretary Reed's respone to the recent ruling on the Top 2 Primary handed down from U.S. District Judge John Coughenour.

New collection: North Pend Oreille Heritage

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Secretary in the House

Image Secretary Reed testified Wednesday morning in the House State Government and Tribal Affairs Committee in favor of… Read more

WA voters win court approval of Top 2 Primary

Image Washington's voter-approved Top 2 Primary system is constitutional, says U.S. District Judge John Coughenour. The jurist, in an… Read more

Sam, senators and certificates on ’11 session’s first day

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Photo courtesy of the Washington State Senate

Secretary Reed took part in the Senate’s opening-day ceremonies Monday by presenting certificates to the new and returning senators. Here… Read more

Just one more day!!!

Image ILS will be having its very own Snap Shot Day tomorrow!!!! We will be taking pictures, collecting stories, and telling you all about it. Check back soon to find out what it is like in the prison and psychiatric hospital libraries of Washington.

Eyman’s back

Image UPDATED ON 1/12/11. Updates last paragraph to change suggested number of voter signatures for sponsors to submit .... If it’s the second Monday in January, it must mean one thing: Tim Eyman is filing… Read more

What’s a day like in a prison or hospital library? Find out!

Image Just about all of us have been inside a library, whether it’s your local library, or a school or college library. But few of us have any idea what it’s like inside a prison library or the library at Western State Hospital. So now, you might have questions… Read more

Go Hawks!

Image The last time this happened was five years ago when they went to the Super Bowl. So is it a good omen that the Seahawks’ 12th Man flag was flying high today in the Flag Circle between the Legislative Building and the Temple of Justice? We’ll know late… Read more

Reed seeks earlier primary & ballots in by Election Day

Image Secretary of State Sam Reed is urging lawmakers to move Washington’s Primary Election two weeks earlier, to early August. He also asks for a law requiring ballots to be in county elections offices by Election Day, rather than simply postmarked that day… Read more

Clippings, December 31, 2010

Library News Spokane’s endangered Eastside Library will remain open at least another year. After a library board of trustees meeting Thursday evening, board members and library administrators said they were certain that the branch was safe for another year. (Spokesman Review (Spokane), 12.10.10) http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/dec/10/budget-preserves-library/ Sno-Isle Libraries has earned praise for… Read more

Ray of Sunshine

Image From the desk of Rand Simmons You know how it feels to receive a call, letter, or greeting card of encouragement from a friend? I feel the same when I receive a message from a customer telling me just how wonderful my staff is. I know it, but it's so much better to know that our… Read more