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Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal Library Receives Library Institutional Excellence Award

June 11, 2014 Secretary of State's Office

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…

The Yakama Nation Library is a recipient of YALSA’s 2014 Great Books Giveaway

March 10, 2014 Secretary of State's Office

What happens when you combine a group of teens with 35 boxes of new books? Short answer, chaos! Long answer, a bunch of exited young adults who can’t wait to start reading. Recently YALSA, or Young Adult Library Service Association donated $10,000 in new books to Yakama Nation Library. Every year YALSA, whose mission is to expand and strengthen library services for teens, donates thousands of books to qualifying libraries across the United States. The Yakama Nation Library is situated…

Washington Libraries and Microsoft IT Academy

March 1, 2013 Secretary of State's Office

From the desk of Rand Simmons Imagine walking into your local public library, community college library, or tribal library and registering to take one of Microsoft’s IT course … for free! Through a partnership with Microsoft, the Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State, is seeking funding from the legislature which will be used to pay for the non-discounted portion of the cost of taking a Microsoft course. (Microsoft has discounted these courses by…

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