Institutional Library Services | WA Secretary of State

Appreciation

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As prison librarians we serve a population

How kind is this - it really touched my heart!

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We just received an interlibrary loan book that we ordered from Ketchikan Campus library in Alaska...The book is titled “Buried treasure of the United State: how to locate hidden wealth”.

Western State Hospital Museum Open-House

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Small Hunch Pays Big Results!

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Some months ago, two ILS staff decided to write to some publisher

Western State Hospital Museum Open-House

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[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="WSH Museum"][/caption] Ten years ago, I had a library visit from a hospital staffer who excitedly asked me to provide him information about the "dead people in the park." Although I've received some odd questions during my years in the library of a state psychiatric hospital, this request was something unusual even for me. I suppressed a grin and asked him to give me more details.