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A Century of Stewardship — the Nesset Family Farm Collection

A Century of Stewardship — the Nesset Family Farm Collection

From the desk of Evan Robb The Washington Rural Heritage Program is pleased to announce a new digital collection from the Deming Library (Whatcom County Library System). The Nesset Family Farm Collection tells the story of a Norwegian immigrant homesteaders who settled on the South Fork Nooksack River in 1902, and for decades worked tirelessly to coax a living from the land, raise five children, and run a small dairy. In the meantime, they documented the many pleasures of settler…

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Washington Rural Heritage Volunteer Recognized for Excellence

Washington Rural Heritage Volunteer Recognized for Excellence

From the desk of Evan Robb Wanda Alderman, Friend and volunteer for Whitman County Library recently received an Outstanding Volunteer Award from The Washington State Genealogical Society recognizing her efforts to preserve important historic images and records for a number of agencies and projects including Washington Rural Heritage, the State Library’s  local history digitization program. Volunteering for the library for nearly 7 years, Wanda has been the public face of the local project, tracking down hidden collections, interviewing contributors, documenting…

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New Digital Collection: Medical Lake Heritage

New Digital Collection: Medical Lake Heritage

From the desk of Evan Robb A new digital collection from our Washington Rural Heritage program tells the story of Medical Lake—the inland Northwest’s first destination resort and spa community.  This collection of historical documents, photos, and cultural objects was digitized in 2014-2015 by the Medical Lake Library (Spokane County Library District) in partnership with the Medical Lake Historical Society. Located 15 miles southwest of Spokane, Washington, Medical Lake was once lauded for its curative properties. The lake’s mineral waters…

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New Digital Collection: Colville National Forest

New Digital Collection: Colville National Forest

From the desk of Evan Robb The Washington Rural Heritage project recently went live with a new digital collection from the northeast corner of our state. The Colville National Forest Collection provides access to a sampling of the archival photos, maps, and documents held by the Heritage Department at Colville National Forest Headquarters in Stevens County. Of particular note are the photos of fire lookouts that once dotted the mountaintops of the Kettle River and Selkirk Mountain Ranges. These photos…

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In search of the Eatonville Dispatch

In search of the Eatonville Dispatch

From the desk of Shawn Schollmeyer & Washington Digital Newspapers. Though the Eatonville Dispatch began as a weekly newspaper in 1893, known available issues begin in 1916, stored on microfilm and carefully protected print copies in archival boxes located at the Eatonville Public Library. It’s still a weekly publication, now known as the Dispatch, printed and available online by the Pacific Publishing Company . We first became aware of the interest in digitizing older issues of this paper when one…

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WSL Updates for March 12, 2015

WSL Updates for March 12, 2015

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

WSL Updates for March 5, 2015

WSL Updates for March 5, 2015

Volume 11, March 5, 2015 for the WSL Updates mailing list Topics include: 1) FREE WORKSHOPS FROM WSL 2) MAPPING INCLUSION – FREE ALA WEBINAR 3) AMIGOS CALLS FOR PRESENTATIONS 4) ARSL CALLS FOR 2015 CONFERENCE PROPOSALS 5) ANNUAL CONFERENCE ALERT 6) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK

Puget Sound Mail – News from La Conner, 1879-1880

Puget Sound Mail – News from La Conner, 1879-1880

From the desk of Marly Rudeen Each newspaper has its own personality supplied in part by the editor, in part by its subscribers and correspondents, and in part by the events of the time period. The Puget Sound Mail from La Conner strikes me as an outward looking paper. Much of front page news comes from San Francisco and other west coast cities, including regular news from southern Oregon and the Willamette Valley. But the rest of that valuable space…

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An MLIS student reports on her experience working on the National Digital Newspaper Program

An MLIS student reports on her experience working on the National Digital Newspaper Program

The Washington State Library participates in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and Library of Congress.  Shawn Schollmeyer, the NDNP coordinator for our state, has had the pleasure of working this past year with two recent MLIS graduate students at the University of Washington, Rachel Foshag and Loryn Lestz. Over the last two years Loryn and Rachel worked on the evaluation of the newspapers for condition and missing pages as well as…

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2014-2015 Washington Rural Heritage grants awarded

2014-2015 Washington Rural Heritage grants awarded

From the desk of Evan Robb Congratulations to the latest group of Washington libraries and museum receiving 2014-2015 LSTA grant awards through the Washington Rural Heritage initiative! A total of 16 Washington institutions (including eight public libraries administering the sub-grants) will collaborate to digitize historically significant primary sources over the next year. Those institutions are: Columbia County Rural Library District, in partnership with the Blue Mountain Heritage Society and the Dayton Historic Depot. Deming Library (Whatcom County Library System), in…

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