Hundreds gather on the Capitol steps
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 moreFrom Our Corner
ILS Snapshot Day Team – Team of the Quarter!
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 major prisons and… Read moreWSL 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:
EWU football: We are the champions!
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 moreLibrary 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 moreClippings, 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 moreClippings, 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 moreAre 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 moreWA 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"] [/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. It turned out to… 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"] [/caption] From the pages of the… Read more
Redistricting panel picks chair, girds for task ahead
Image The Washington State Redistricting Commission is at full strength after unanimously choosing Lura Powell of Richland as their fifth, nonvoting, member and chairwoman. She was immediately sworn in by Secretary of State Sam… 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.Secretary of State
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