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Clippings – September 21, 2009 Library News Tacoma Public Library Board of Trustees has been briefed on plans to spend $150,000 to remodel the Kobetich branch and is scheduled to vote on approving the funding later this month. (Photo) (Tacoma Weekly, 9.3.09) http://www.tacomaweekly.com/article/3498/ Puyallup Public Library updated its Web site including new themes, redesigned layout, tab navigation and interactive features.

Your librarians will answer your questions, day or night. Have you ever had a question you couldn’t answer? Has Google left you empty-handed – or overwhelmed?

Many of Washington State Library’s

I was reminded today that libraries are places where people work - not just places where people come to hang out, find information, relax and meet friends, use a wireless connection, attend a story time, or much more. A message came across my computer screen today from the Oregon library email discussion list, Libs-Or, posted by Jane S. Kirby.

A sizable budget deficit is forcing the town of Roy to do what no town wants to do: close the Roy City Library until the beginning of the new year. In the last year or so the Roy Library had become the place for the local teenagers to hang out to use the computers and check out materials.

Clippings – September 7, 2009 Library News CHEERS ... to Washington State Librarian Jan Walsh. Working with her staff and Washington's library community, Walsh has spearheaded an online resource guide to help the state's 315,853 unemployed.

These media mentions are compiled by Brian Zylstra, Deputy Communications Director for the Office of the Secretary of State, and passed along to us. The following links cover Media Clips provided August 06, 2009 – September 04, 2009.

Clippings – August 31, 2009 Library News King County Library System (KCLS) negotiates with Duvall Church on library site. The property KCLS owns, bought in 2006, is on hold while negotiations continue with the church. (Valley View [Woodinville], 8.10.09) La Conner Regional Library has entered into a reciprocal borrowing agreement with Anacortes Public Library. “This is a way to give our taxpayers more resources for their tax dollars and reward them for supporting libraries,” says Joy Neal, Library Director.