Institutional Library Services | WA Secretary of State

Anna Nash, Employee of the Year 2010

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30 Years of Service to Western State Hospital

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Keeping the Connection

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Representative Troy Kelley visits Western State Hospital Library

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Dear Dewey continues

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On Friday--March 4--a patient who called himself "the son of Satan" walked away from the Western State Hospital grounds. He was found the next day in a public park eight miles distant from the hospital. An investigation was immediately conducted to determine how the escape occured.

Coyote Ridge’s Melissa Gilbert on serving AA students through a prison library

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National Prison Library Directory

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Prison librarians have long fostered a spirit of collaboration in their field of librarianship. Information is shared and questions are asked by any with an interest in prison libraries.