Secretary Wyman presents volunteer Rose Banks with the Roger Easton Award of Excellence. (Photo courtesy of  Mary Hammer)

Hundreds of volunteers play an important role in our office, collectively devoting thousands of hours of their time doing tasks like transcribing and indexing digitized documents online using Scribe software for our State Digital Archives and doing on-site projects in processing and research for our State Library, Washington Talking Book & Braille Library and Legacy Project. Their tireless dedication makes it possible for our staff to accomplish so much more.

Many of these volunteers and their families gathered at the Ellensburg Rodeo Grounds Tuesday for the annual Volunteer Recognition Event. Secretary Wyman thanked the volunteers for their dedication and tireless work.  Wyman later presented the Roger Easton Award of Excellence to Rose Banks of Cheney for being the first volunteer to transcribe and index 100,000 digital records using Scribe. Congratulations to Rose and all of our wonderful volunteers!

There are currently 50,977,718 records searchable online at the Digital Archives, due in large part to the work of volunteers.