Clippings, January 29, 2010
Washington State Library News A big round of spending cuts is coming to the Washington State Library, and agency leaders said it means 31 lost jobs and elimination of work to preserve many of the state’s oldest historic documents. “It’s over a third of our staff, if the governor’s budget goes through, which is what makes this so devastating,” State Librarian Jan Walsh says. (The Olympian, 1.19.10) http://www.theolympian.com/legislature/story/1106455.html The State Library, which is a division of the Office of Secretary…