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WSL Updates for May 22, 2014

WSL Updates for May 22, 2014

Volume 10, May 22, 2014 for the WSL Updates mailing list Topics include: 1) FIRST TUESDAYS – MAKE YOUR WEEDING EASIER 2) CE GRANTS FOR STARTING STRONG 3) WALE 2014 SESSION PROPOSALS 4) 2014 SUMMER READING LISTS AVAILABLE 5) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK ————————————————————————————————————— 1) FIRST TUESDAYS – MAKE YOUR WEEDING EASIER Weeding – whether it’s in your garden or in your library, it’s a chore. Find out how to make weeding in your library easier at the next…

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WALE CONFERENCE – SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY MENTAL HEALTH

WALE CONFERENCE – SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY MENTAL HEALTH

Children’s Books The Face at the Window, by Regina Hanson.  Clarion Books, ©1997. Exceptional children’s picture book that illustrates empathy for the mentally ill. Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry, by Bebe Moore Campbell.  Putnam, ©2003 Nicely illustrated children’s picture book that explains mental illness to the very young.   Novels Halfway House, by Katharine Noel.  Atlantic Monthly, ©2006 Set in a small town in New Hampshire, this is the story of a young woman’s psychotic breakdown—and her family’s subsequent turmoil….

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WALE CONFERENCE – Institutional Library Services from the Prison Perspective pt. 2

WALE CONFERENCE – Institutional Library Services from the Prison Perspective pt. 2

My Work Day: I unlock the library and start turning it on, taking off my jacket and stuff to stay awhile, change the backup tape, put a new battery in the radio on my belt, type in passwords for the computers and the level of user, go unlock the book return box and switch bins.  When movement is called the crew will report in, I log the time and greet them, the talk dwells on whatever happened since the last…

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WALE CONFERENCE – Institutional Library Service from the Prison Perspective pt. 1

WALE CONFERENCE – Institutional Library Service from the Prison Perspective pt. 1

Earl Dungey – McNeil Island Corrections Center Library And many have done a “little time”  They include Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, St. Paul, Christopher Columbus, and writers Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Miguel Cervantes.  How one gets inside a prison isn’t as important as what they do there and after they are released, or so this illustrious list of names would have you believe.   There are fifteen prisons, one of them for women in Washington, and another will be opening soon. …

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WALE CONFERENCE – Institutional Library Services from the Hospital Perspective

WALE CONFERENCE – Institutional Library Services from the Hospital Perspective

  Rehab, Recovery and Re-Entry: the role of Institutional Library Services in Washington State Presenter: Kathleen Benoun – Western State Hospital Patients Library Over the ages, many have flown over the cuckoo’s nest.  People who have been hospitalized for psychosis include philosopher Fredrich Nietzsche, King George III, singer James Taylor, Mary Todd Lincoln, Vincent Van Gogh and sci-fi writer Philip K Dick In the 19th century, when countries and states built asylums and prisons, each institution created their own reader’s collection…

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