Volume 5: May 21, 2009 for the WSL Updates mailing list Topics include: 1) QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION ON THE NEW HARD TIMES GRANT CYCLE 2) LETTERS ABOUT LITERATURE AWARD CEREMONY 3) CONSUMER REPORTS GROUP PURCHASE UPDATE 4) STATEWIDE DATABASE TRIALS FOCUS ON “HARD TIMES” DURING MAY-JUNE 5) FIRST TUESDAYS PROGRAM FOCUSES ON BULLYING IN THE WORKPLACE 6) ADDITIONAL FREE ONLINE REFERENCE CLASSES TO BE OFFERED IN JULY 7) TECH SOUP WEBINARS AND EVENTS… Read more
[caption id="attachment_628" align="alignleft" width="260" caption="Coyote Ridge Library"] [/caption] Since I was traveling all over the state and was going to be within 1 hour of Coyote Ridge Corrections Center (CRCC) I decided to stop in and get a look at the biggest and newest library branch of the Washington State Library. CRCC also has the pleasure of having two staff members and soon there will be three, but truthfully they need it. The library is… Read more
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-Richland at sunset
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It was the summer of 1973 when I was hired among a pool of teenagers to work in the Patients Library in the original Madigan Army Hospital near Fort Lewis. There were three full-time librarians that interviewed and hired me. All three made a lifelong lasting impression. But the one who wafts in and out of my memory like a sweet fragrance is Mrs. Roberts. The head librarian was Mrs. Bruns. Mrs. Bruns was the only daughter of a wealthy family. Her childhood stories were ones of exotic… Read more
Muir Snowfield, on the south slope of Mount Rainier, high above Paradise -Photo by Dave Whitmore
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At the Washington Capitol, the sun is out, but folks are still pretty bundled up. Our colleague, Patrick McDonald, who's on a tour of duty in Iraq with the Army Reserves as an elections adviser, regularly sends us great slice-of-life photos and info.
Today, we got a reminder that summer and unbearable heat has arrived in Baghdad. Says Patrick, "Just in case you think it is too cold, welcome to my world. 80 more days of this!"
