Redemption through Reading
According to a recent Reuters news item, the country of Brazil is offering a novel way for prisoners to shorten their sentences: read a book!
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New digital resources from Asotin County Heritage
Asotin County Library has recently added over 100 newly digitized photographs to the Asotin County Heritage collection with the assistance of a grant from the State Library's Washington Rural Heritage initiative! [caption id="attachment_8332" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Oliver Brodock poses with his cat outside his service garage in the Silcott area of Asotin County, Washington, 1940."]
Libraries offer advice on purchasing eReaders
Face to Face with a Ghost in Centralia
Gardens in Unexpected Places
The first sight that greeted Diane Hutchins and me as we parked in the Hibulb Cultural Center lot on the Tulalip Indian reservation was a gorgeous garden. The individual responsible for the garden, Veronica Leahy, happened to be working on site. Before we entered the Cultural Center for our visit, we chatted with her.
Discover the Hibulb Cultural Center
Looking for a change of scene? Trying to find a place that the whole family can enjoy?
How Digitizing is Changing my Life: Ashley Fejeran
From the desk of Rand Simmons
Recently I blogged that we had received an extension on our National Endowment for the Humanities grant to allow us an extension of time to continue to digitize Washington historical newspapers. The project is the National Digital Newspaper Program of the Library of Congress (LoC).
