Volume 12, June 30, 2016 for the WSL Updates mailing list

Topics include:

1) FREE BOOKS FOR WASHINGTON LIBRARIES

2) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK

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1) FREE BOOKS FOR WASHINGTON LIBRARIES

Thanks to the generosity of Bellingham Public Library and the Seattle Public Library Foundation, Washington State Library has the following titles to distribute for reading club kits or as a community read to any public or school library within Washington State:

• The Outlander by Gil Adamson, fiction – 9 copies
• The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby Applegate, nonfiction – 10 copies
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt, nonfiction – 11 copies
• For All of Us, One Today by Richard Blanco, poetry in English & Spanish – 23 copies
• The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr, nonfiction – 11 copies
• Bones of the Master: A Journey to Secret Mongolia by George Crane, nonfiction – 10 copies
• Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay, fiction – 6 copies
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, fiction – 10 copies
• A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris, fiction – 11 copies
• A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, fiction – 13 copies
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman, nonfiction – 12 copies
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford, fiction – 15 copies
• Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman, nonfiction – 10 copies
• The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss, fiction – 9 copies
• Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy, nonfiction – 9 copies
• Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt, nonfiction – 10 copies
• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson, fiction – 25 copies
• The Painter by Peter Heller, fiction – 86 copies
• Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz, nonfiction – 10 copies
• The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson, fiction – 11 copies
• Mountains beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder, nonfiction – 9 copies
• The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg, fiction – 10 copies
• The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen, fiction – 10 copies
• Border Songs by Jim Lynch, fiction – 14 copies
• Oil on the Brain: Petroleum’s Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank by Lisa Margonelli, nonfiction – 8 copies
• Atonement by Ian McEwan, fiction – 13 copies
• Amagansett by Mark Mills, fiction – 11 copies
• My Dream of You by Nuala O’Faolain, fiction – 10 copies
• Divisadero by Michael Ondaaje, fiction – 10 copies
• A World Without Ice By Henry Pollack, nonfiction – 10 copies
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See, fiction – 10 copies
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie, fiction – 14 copies
• Half Broke Horse: A True Life Novel by Jeannette Walls – 5 copies

Usually a minimum order of 5 copies of the same title is required but we are offering a mix and match special on these titles, minimum of 5 total books per order.

These will be distributed on a first come, first served basis at no charge to the requestor.

Please do not return any books received as part of this program without contacting Shirley Lewis.

If you are interested in any of the titles above, please contact Leanna Hammond at [email protected]. Please indicate which title(s) and how many you would like.

If you have any questions about free books redistribution, please contact Shirley Lewis at [email protected].

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2) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK

July 6

• Making Your Catalog Work for Your Community: How to Develop Local Cataloging Standards (Nebraska Library Commission); 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. PDT
• Fold 3 (ProQuest); 7:00 – 8:00 a.m. PDT
• Newspapers.com (ProQuest); 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PDT

July 7

• Before Bilingual Storytime: The Outreach Bridge to Engaging Latino and Spanish-speaking Families (WebJunction); 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. PDT
• New Fiscal Year, New Deals Through TechSoup (TechSoup for Libraries); 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PDT
• Playing by the Rules: Creating an Effective Volunteer Handbook (VolunteerMatch.org); 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PDT

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For more information and to register (unless otherwise linked above), visit the WSL Training Calendar at sos.wa.gov/q/training.

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