Library Clippings for the week of January 9, 2015

Library News

Library shortens loan period on DVDs
The loan period for DVDs from the Mill Creek Library will be reduced to seven days. Children’s DVDs, educational DVDs and multi-part TV shows will continue to be loaned for three weeks. The new policy is intended to cut down on the long wait for popular movies. (Millcreek View, Millcreek, 12/–/14)

Heritage grant will help preserve historic documents
The Colville National Forest, in partnership with the Libraries of Stevens County, was successful in competing for the 2014-2015 Washington Rural Heritage Grant to digitize historic photographs, maps and documents that capture scenes of early Forest Service activities and life in Northeast Washington from the early 1900s. The Washington Rural Heritage grant, through the Washington State Library, will allow the digitization of historical photographs, documents and maps stored in the Heritage Department at the Forest Service headquarters in Colville. (Statesman-Examiner, Colville, 12/3/14)

Sno-Isle libraries decrease DVD loan period
Beginning Jan. 1, the Sno-Isle Libraries loan period for movies on DVD will change to seven days, down from three weeks. If that makes you sad, here’s the happy news: The change is expected to shorten waiting lines for those popular movies you’re so eager to watch. Sno-Isle libraries will continue to check out television series, educational DVDs and children’s DVDs for 21 days. (The Edmonds Beacon, Mukilteo, 12/4/14)

Library board OKs purchase of Bucklin Hill site (Central Kitsap Reporter, Silverdale, 12/5/14)

Old rock houses, libraries help rebuild communities (The Daily Evergreen, Pullman, 12/8/14)

Students prepare for book battle (Whidbey News-Times, Oak Harbor, 12/10/14)

Van Zandt gets a library
Look for the new Van Zandt Free Library at Everybody’s Store, courtesy of the South Fork Valley Community Association. (Foothills Gazette, Maple Falls, 12/10/14)

Bethel schools big on libraries
The Bethel School District is one of the reasons that Pierce County Library System has more than 22,000 new library card holders. The system issued 22,259 new cards during its eighth annual card drive in October. A spokeswoman said the bulk of them came from an ongoing partnership with school districts, and that 17,000 cards alone were issued within the Bethel, White River and Franklin Pierce school districts. (South Pierce County Dispatch, Eatonville, 12/10/14)

Money snag alters rural library plans (Union-Bulletin, Walla Walla, 12/14/14)

Schools lag on tech jobs
Schools are remiss in training students for future job opportunities in computer science, a situation that will put those kids at a great disadvantage, according to a Monday presentation to the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce. “Computer science is a top-paying degree, and computer programming jobs are growing at a rate that is two times the national average,” said Kit Ward-Crixell, the Port Townsend Library’s director of children’s services. (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, 12/16/14)

Buildings

Work starts on library door
Work has started on construction of a fire door between the Whitman County Library and The Center, which adjoins the library on the south side. Timothy Sullivan of Sullivan Construction of Albion applied for a city building permit Monday to undertake the project. Estimated cost of the job is $10,200. (Whitman County Gazette, Colfax, 12/4/14)

Library dreamers gather again
Five years after they had her as a teacher, Jill Robertson’s students are back. On Thursday, Dec. 4, the Aiming High teacher’s former students met with architect David Strauss to discuss a project they had tackled five years ago – giving Strauss ideas for the design of a new Ferndale public library. (Ferndale Record, Ferndale, 12/10/14)

Remodeled library branch reopens (South Pierce County Dispatch, Eatonville, 12/10/14)

Ferndale Public Library
Whatcom County Library System has opened the 15, 000 square-foot, $4.7 million Ferndale Public Library Branch. The library’s new home is at 2125 Main St., close to downtown retail and restaurants. (Daily Journal of Commerce, Seattle, 12/27/14)

Letters & Editorials

Rural Library District should drop plans for urban library
This opinion article states that now is the time for the Walla Walla Rural Library District board of directors to rethink the wisdom of its plan to build a central library in the Walla Walla-College Place urban area. The concept made no sense when it was proposed two years ago and nothing has changed to justify its construction. (Union-Bulletin, Walla Walla, 12/16/14)

People

A new face checks in at library (Liberty Lake Splash, Liberty Lake, 12/–/14)

Washington State Poet Laureate Austin performed at Chelan library
She started writing poetry just after she learned to walk and write. That was it. Walk, write, poetry. She’s been in the arts ever since. At first Elizabeth Austen was a trained classical Shakespearian actress, but at some point in her “early 30’s” she decided to leave the stage and become a poet. Her poetic philosophy is a simple one, “I discover what it is I have to say in the process of writing,” she said during a recent phone interview. “I do not sit down with an agenda.” Austen will spend most of her readings in public libraries, some schools, community centers and tribal centers during her pilgrimage to bring verse to rural, urban and points in between. (Lake Chelan Mirror, Chelan, 12/3/14)

Have you met Miss Josephine at the library? (Daily Record, Ellensburg, 12/9/14)

Monroe teen artists recognized by Sno-Isle Libraries (Monroe Monitor & Valley News, Monroe, 12/9/14)

Grandview Library bookmark contest winner
Mary Schell, age 14, took third place in the Junior division. (Grandview Herald, Grandview, 12/10/14)

Central Skagit Library director announces resignation (Skagit Valley Herald, Mount Vernon, 12/12/14)

Have you met Debby DeSoer at the library? (Daily Record, Ellensburg, 12/16/14)

Eisler is new PT library leader (The Leader, Port Townsend, 12/17/14)

Programs/Displays

SCLD lends savvy e-reader options
The Spokane County Library District is ready and able to support e-reader use with digital library resources like Overdrive and Tumblebook. Cara Strickland, SCLD communications specialist, said the district has 28,014 e-books in its collection. (The Current, Liberty Lake, 12/–/14)

Learning starts early
Parents lift their babies in the air in a countdown rocket blastoff game during Infant Story Time, taught by Ann Crewdson every Wednesday at the King County Library System’s Issaquah branch. (Issaquah Press, Issaquah, 12/10/14)

Reading train chugs back into Forks Library (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, 12/15/14)

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[This summary of library news represents a selection of current newspaper clippings about Washington libraries received from Washington newspapers. The summary is created by Leanna Hammond and Marilyn Lindholm of the Washington State Library, a Division of the Office of the Secretary of State. For further information about this summary or the clippings listed, contact Shirley Lewis at 360.570.5567 or [email protected].]

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