We now have two Facebook pages where we will be sharing information about Institutional Libraries. The first one is our primary page for Washington State Library Institutional Library Services. Our second Facebook page is specifically for the Institutional Library Services “Library Snapshot Day“, which will occur on January 11, 2011. Please check back on both pages to get the latest information about Institutional Library Services in Washington State.
If you read this blog regularly, you may already know the Washington State Library provides outreach library services to all the public prisons in the state (except for the minimum centers.) The benefit of this cooperative agreement between agencies is that incarcerated populations in Washington State have access to fantastic libraries and are served by the certified Librarians and library technicians who manage them. At Coyote Ridge Corrections Center, general and legal services are combined in one library. It is…
Check out these free training opportunities coming up in July. Free WSL online trainings: First Tuesdays: Safety in Small Libraries July 7, 9:00-10:00 a.m. Designed as a continuing-education opportunity for all library staff in Washington State, this free web presentation from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., on the first Tuesday of the month lets attendees share their skills and successes and learn about new topics. The special-subject presentations, lasting about 30 minutes, are recorded so that others may listen at…
Following the opening of the new Coyote Ridge Corrections Center near Connell earlier this month, the inmates there just this week gained access to the newest library in the Washington State Library system. The Coyote Ridge library features books, music CDs, and audio books; and a legal resources area where inmates can access legal resources such as case law, forms and court rules. The legal resources are now available on electronic files, which inmates can access from computers in the…
“An award jointly sponsored by the English Speaking Union and The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) is granted each year to a professionally qualified librarian working in British libraries or information centres. The programme is designed to encourage US/UK contacts in the library world and the visit is for two weeks and normally takes place in the autumn.” We are very excited to be hosting this year’s recipient who works in a privately managed women’s prison in…
Staffing consists of 16 women, 3 men, and 4 members of the staff have an MLS, and 2 vacancies. Institutions in Washington State with library services provided by ILS include 1 prison that houses women, 9 prisons that house men, 2 state hospitals, and 11 camps that receive ILL service from staff of ILS. Age range of staff 31-65 355 years of combined library experience The above are just basic facts, which are important, but they don’t really tell you what…
Staffing consists of 16 women, 3 men, and 4 members of the staff have an MLS, and 2 vacancies. Institutions in Washington State with library services provided by ILS include 1 prison that houses women, 9 prisons that house men, 2 state hospitals, and 11 camps that receive ILL service from staff of ILS. Age range of staff 31-65 355 years of combined library experience The above are just basic facts, which are important, but they don’t really tell you what makes the…