From Our Corner
'Election Day' is here -- be counted!
Image Washington's election season culminates Tuesday, at least until the counting starts. For all except some poll-site voters in Pierce County, Election Day is really Postmark Day for our ballots. That means if your mail ballot doesn't have a… Read more
Archives and campaign pieces: Slade Gorton
OK, we’re almost there. Election Day is tomorrow! If you haven’t filled out and returned your ballot yet, do it soon! For Election Eve, we’re spotlighting an old campaign piece from Republican Slade Gorton, who was Washington State’s Attorney General from 1969 until 1981, when he began serving the first of two stints in the U.S. Senate, 1981-87 and again from 1989 to 2001.… Read more
Reed: WA voters are 'wide awake'
Image Washington's Election Day is now just a few days off, and Secretary of State Sam Reed is predicting the best midterm election turnout in four decades. Reed says voters are fired up and that counties are expecting a flood of mail-in ballots… Read more
Archives and campaign pieces: Tom Foley
Image We’re entering the last weekend before the big election. For those of you who aren’t overwhelmed by looking at campaign literature, here is one from long ago. It features former U.S. House Speaker Tom Foley of Spokane. Foley… Read more
Oooh, that’s a scary cassette player!
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Photo courtesy of Washington Talking Book & Braille Library
Pumpkins are so passé. The Washington Talking Book & Braille Library in Seattle celebrated Halloween by decorating its soon-to-be-obsolete C-1 cassette… Read moreArchives spotlights logging history
Image Not even Game 1 of the World Series could keep nearly 75 people from attending Thursday night’s logging history event at the State Archives in Olympia. The three-hour program, called “Logging in Washington: High Climbing and Tall Timber,” included a 1920s… Read more
Archives and campaign pieces: Jennifer Dunn
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Courtesy of Washington State Archives
Just five days until Election Day! Here is our latest example of an archived campaign piece featuring a past Washington political leader: Jennifer Dunn, who served in Congress from 1993 to… Read moreClippings, October 22, 2010
Library News
Crittenberger Library on Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) Main will close in December as part of a plan to relocate various services. All library services will be continued at Grandstaff Library on JBLM Main. (Fort Lewis Ranger & Weekly Volcano [Lakewood], 10.7.10) http://www.northwestmilitary.com/news/articles/2010/10/… Read more
WSL Updates for October 28, 2010
Volume 6, October 28, 2010 for the WSL Updates mailing list
Topics include:
1) FIRST TUESDAYS - ROMANCE READERS' ADVISORY
2) VOLUNTEERS SOUGHT FOR DAILY OLYMPIAN INDEXING
3) SCHOLARSHIP MONEY AVAILABLE FOR FUTURE LIBRARIANS
4) LIS FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE DIRECTORY
5) DIGITAL HUMANITIES START-UP GRANTS
6) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK
… Read moreHard Times in Washington: Building mountain roads
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Photo courtesy of Washington State Archives
Anyone who has traveled across the scenic North Cascades Highway (SR 20) knows how long and beautiful it is. Just imagine how difficult it was to… Read moreArchives and campaign pieces: Al Rosellini
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Courtesy of Washington State Archives
With the election just six days away, here’s another look way back at a campaign piece of one of Washington’s political leaders from yesteryear: Al Rosellini, who served two terms… Read moreTrack election results with new iPhone app!
Image If you want to keep track of next week’s General Election results but just can’t keep away from your iPhone, you can use the new Election Results iPhone app. It will provide current vote totals for state offices in the most recent… Read more
Archives and campaign pieces: Dan Evans
Image The November 2 General Election is exactly one week away, and you’ve likely received a lot of campaign pieces in the mail. Most people throw away those campaign pieces. Fortunately, our State… Read more
Archives and campaign pieces: "Scoop" Jackson
Image With the big November 2 statewide election just a week away, we thought it would be fun to turn the clock back and view some of the campaign documents of well-known Washington politicos that our… Read more
Hard Times in Washington: Early travel
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Photo courtesy of Washington State Archives
You thought your rainy commute this morning was tough? Try doing it on a muddy “road” that is really a wide trail, while sitting in an uncovered wagon… Read moreClippings, October 15, 2010
Library News Advocates of Vancouver's historic downtown have rolled up their sleeves and sprung into action after a six-month crash course on how to revitalize the area. The largest project in size and cost is a $38 million, five-story public library, set to open in 2011 for the Fort Vancouver Regional Library District. http://www.columbian.com/news/2010/oct/03/small-projects-could-lead-to-… Read moreHaven’t registered to vote yet? Do it now!
Image If the bazillion or so campaign ads playing on TV and radio the past few weeks didn’t clue you in, our state’s General Election is coming up soon, November 2, to be precise. If you’ve never registered to vote in Washington and want to take… Read moreHard Times in Washington: Mount St. Helens eruption
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Photo courtesy of Washington State Archives
Those who witnessed this once-beautiful mountain’s eruption on May 18, 1980, will never forget the incredible destruction and the ash cloud… Read moreTop 2 Primary creates some all-in-the-family races
Image Ten of Washington's 123 legislative races pit finalists who prefer the same political party, 25 lawmakers will be elected without opposition at all, and most of the rest will be traditional smackdowns between candidates who prefer… Read more
Secretary of State
Steve Hobbs
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