For the Public

From the desk of Jeff Martin Every year, the Washington State Library (WSL) reports on its use of Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funding to the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

Back in 2008 an idea was born. Many Washington Libraries were catching on to Nancy Pearl’s brilliant “One Book, Community wide read” idea.

Every five years one of our tasks at the State Library is to both look backwards and look forward.

From the Desk of Will Stuivenga.

From the desk of Shawn Schollmeyer The Library of Congress has once again found a fun new way to promote our digital newspapers collections by launching a new crowd-sourced tagging tool to help us capture the key names & titles of the WWI cartoons in our Washington digital newspapers.

From the desk of Carolyn Petersen Congratulations to the Shoalwater Bay Tribe on their new museum library location!

From the desk of Judy Pitchford Hey kids (and adults)!

Click for a Flickrset of some of the great pictures we took! What started as a surprise, turned into a glorious celebration!