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Davenport Public Library – Providing Broadband Access to their community

Davenport Public Library – Providing Broadband Access to their community

Over in Lincoln County the Davenport Public Library is doing business, but not quite as usual. In 2013 they were the beneficiaries of a Broadband Technologies Opportunity Program (BTOP) grant as well as a LSTA grant both administered by the Washington State Library. We recently heard from Katy Pike, a librarian at the Davenport library about some of the ways that implementing this grant has impacted the Davenport community. First the numbers. Their speeds used to be a slow 1.5…

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The Exciting World of Accounting!

The Exciting World of Accounting!

From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library My Father was an accountant, and when he wanted us kids to get sleepy and not stay up too late, all he had to do was talk about his job. But before you dismiss the profession of accounting as a boring and tedious vocation, consider this front page story from the Sept. 14, 1911 issue of the Olympia Daily Recorder: STATE OFFICIAL IN SHERIFF’S IRONS…

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