For the Public

From the desk of Kathleen Benoun It is said that there’s an opportunity during every crisis. In 2011, the branch libraries of the Washington State Library learned that their book budgets had been severely cut. Magazine subscriptions dwindled and there was no money for new materials. At the same time, several units at the Western State Hospital were restricted from certain areas on campus that included the library building. Library attendance dwindled.

The following publications were received during January - March 2017. This list is provided to create an awareness of the breadth and depth of the Washington State Library’s federal publications collection and to alert readers to specific titles available to them either online or in print (or other tangible mediums such as microfiche).

The titles included in this document represent the many valuable publications produced by the Government Publishing Office (GPO) and distributed to federal depository libraries through the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP).