Volume 13, May 25, 2017 for the WSL Updates mailing list Topics include: 1) FIRST TUESDAYS – BACK TO REALITY 2) WTBBL WINS NATIONAL AWARD 3) FREE BOOKS 4) WSL GRANT CYCLES CLOSING 5) DIGITAL LITERACY & FAKE NEWS 6) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK
Volume 11, March 12, 2015 for the WSL Updates mailing list Topics include: 1) WASHINGTON RURAL HERITAGE GRANT CYCLE OPEN 2) RECORDED BOOKS ONECLICK RENEWALS 3) SAN JUAN ISLAND LIBRARY WINS AWARD 4) STORYCORPS COMES TO NISQUALLY 5) WELL-FED & WELL-READ – SUMMER MEAL SITES 6) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK
The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal Library was awarded the 2014 Library Institutional Excellence Award by the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums. Included in the recognition were Tribal Planning Director Leanne Jenkins, library staff including Siri Hiltz, MLIS, Tribal partner JKT Development, Inc.(an enterprise of the Tribe’s Economic Development Authority), and the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal community as a whole. Established in 2007, the Guardians of Culture, Memory, and Lifeways International Awards Program identifies and recognizes organizations and individuals who serve…
Volume 10, March 27, 2014 for the WSL Updates mailing list Topics include: 1) SECURITY IN THE LIBRARY IS NO APRIL FOOLS JOKE 2) SCHOOL LIBRARIANS – SHARE YOUR STORIES! 3) LEMONY SNICKET ADVERSITY AWARD 4) ACRL CONFERENCE PROPOSALS SOLICITED 5) ALA DIVERSITY RESEARCH GRANTS 6) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK ————————————————————————————————————— 1) SECURITY IN THE LIBRARY IS NO APRIL FOOLS JOKE How safe is your library? Do you have sufficient controls in place to protect your collections? Do you…
Volume 8, October 4, 2012 for the WSL Updates mailing list Topics include: 1) NEWS FROM WASHINGTON RURAL HERITAGE 2) EBOOKS AND EREADERS SURVEY 3) FREE DISASTER PREPAREDNESS WORKSHOP 4) CALL FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT BOOK CHAPTERS 5) SCHOOL LIBRARY HUMANITIES AWARD 6) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK ————————————————————————————————————— 1) NEWS FROM WASHINGTON RURAL HERITAGE Seven public libraries throughout the state recently completed work on 2011 LSTA grant projects for Washington Rural Heritage. The WSL-led digitization initiative currently provides online access…
Yesterday, Mike Thompson, Custodian at the Washington State Library, received the Employee of the Year award from the Administrative Services Division of the Office of the Secretary of State. Mike was nominated by several staff members from the library, and here are excerpts from their comments about Mike: Mike exhibits outstanding work ethics and attention to detail. He keeps all the buildings he’s responsible for in top form. Regardless of his heavy workload, he is always pleasant and makes time…
One of the first sessions I attended was the Unconference (wonderful, by the way). At the Unconference I was talking with one of the other attendees about this being our first ALA and she said, “Oh wait! Someone forwarded this to me this morning. There is free food on Saturday! Give me your phone number and I’ll send you the information.” Lo and behold it was the ASCLA Awards Ceremony. Initially I was a little indignant. How could these moochers…
The “other” Washington, that is, Washington D.C. Mark Ray, Washington’s 2011 Teacher of the Year, and a librarian and media specialist from Skyview High School, Vancouver, WA, is currently in the nation’s capitol where he, along with the teachers of the year from the other states, got to visit the White House, and shake the president’s hand. While in town he also plans to meet with Washington’s senators, and others to advocate for school libraries. In this picture, Mark is…
Kudos go to Mark Ray, Teacher and Librarian/Media Specialist at Skyview High School in Vancouver, WA who was recently named Washington’s Teacher of the Year. The award was announced by the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, during a ceremony in Seattle, Oct. 3, 2011. An article in the Vancouver Columbian is filled with encomiums of well-deserved praise for librarian Ray. Then, what should appear in the Seattle Times today? Nothing less than a guest column by Ray, in…
Congratulations to the King County Library System‘s Sammamish Library, which has been selected as one of Library Journal’s “Landmark Libraries” for 2011! Read the full citation here. The rest of the winners and honorable mentions are here.