Courtesy Legislative Planning Committee, Washington Library Association State Bills of Interest.

The Washington Library Association(WLA) tracks state legislative activity that will potentially affect Washington Libraries. Their tracker is posted to the WLA web site and we will also post it weekly on this blog.  For information on the legislative process or becoming involved see the WLA site referenced above.

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Courtesy Legislative Planning Committee, Washington Library Association State Bills of Interest.

The Washington Library Association(WLA) tracks state legislative activity that will potentially affect Washington Libraries. Their tracker is posted to the WLA web site and we will also post it weekly on this blog.  For information on the legislative process or becoming involved see the WLA site referenced above.

Click below to view the tracker.

Read the rest of this entry »

Courtesy Legislative Planning Committee, Washington Library Association State Bills of Interest.

The Washington Library Association(WLA) tracks state legislative activity that will potentially affect Washington Libraries. Their tracker is posted to the WLA web site and we will also post it weekly on this blog.  For information on the legislative process or becoming involved see the WLA site referenced above.

Click below to view the tracker.

Read the rest of this entry »

Courtesy Legislative Planning Committee, Washington Library Association State Bills of Interest.

The Washington Library Association(WLA) tracks state legislative activity that will potentially affect Washington Libraries. Their tracker is posted to the WLA web site and we will also post it weekly on this blog.  For information on the legislative process or becoming involved see the WLA site referenced above.

Click below to view the tracker.

Read the rest of this entry »

Courtesy Legislative Planning Committee, Washington Library Association State Bills of Interest.

The Washington Library Association(WLA) tracks state legislative activity that will potentially affect Washington Libraries. Their tracker is posted to the WLA web site and we will also post it weekly on this blog.  For information on the legislative process or becoming involved see the WLA site referenced above.

Click below to view the tracker.

Read the rest of this entry »

Courtesy Legislative Planning Committee, Washington Library Association State Bills of Interest.

The Washington Library Association(WLA) tracks state legislative activity that will potentially affect Washington Libraries. Their tracker is posted to the WLA web site and we will also post it weekly on this blog.  For information on the legislative process or becoming involved see the WLA site referenced above.

Click below to view the tracker.

Read the rest of this entry »

Courtesy Legislative Planning Committee, Washington Library Association State Bills of Interest.

The Washington Library Association(WLA) tracks state legislative activity that will potentially affect Washington Libraries. Their tracker is posted to the WLA web site and we will also post it weekly on this blog.  For information on the legislative process or becoming involved see the WLA site referenced above.

Click below to view the tracker.

Read the rest of this entry »

I was reminded today that libraries are places where people work – not just places where people come to hang out, find information, relax and meet friends, use a wireless connection, attend a story time, or much more.

A message came across my computer screen today from the Oregon library email discussion list, Libs-Or, posted by Jane S. Kirby. The message pointed to the the Oregon OSHA web site which recently updated its information on Pandemic Influenza/H1N1 Influenza, http://www.orosha.org/subjects/pandemic.html.

It includes Guidelines from Oregon OSHA and the Oregon Public Health Division Information for Employers on 2009 H1N1 Flu in the Workplace, http://www.orosha.org/pdf/notices/fluguidelines.pdf, which may be of particular interest to employers. Here’s hoping for a healthy work environment in Washington libraries. It will take all of us working wisely to make that happen.

Good news for Dayton, Washington, and Columbia County. Residents of Dayton voted yesterday to annex into the Columbia County Rural Library District (CCRLD). This is a win-win for both the city and the library district. Voters approved the annexation by 74%. Trustee Chair, Tanya Patton, reports relief and joy after 4 years of work on this issue.

Columbia County Rural Library District is the newest library district in Washington, formed by voters in 2005. Starbuck, the other of the two incorporated areas of Columbia County remains outside the library district. The Library District will assume ownership of the Dayton Memorial Library building Jan 1, 2010 and will receive their first tax money in 2011. The city will continue to contract for 2010.

You can learn more about CCRLD at their web site (http://www.ccrld.lib.wa.us/). Janet Lyon is the Director.

On a similar vein, the levy vote vital to keeping Castle Rock Public Library alive remains too close to call. The vote is just shy of the 60% super majority required. At the time of this writing 500 votes remain to be counted but some of those may belong to another primary election for the city of Kelso. This is not the first time the Castle Rock Library has found itself in a tight place. You can read more in today’s The Daily News Online (http://www.tdn.com/articles/2009/08/19/area_news/doc4a8b85b672d7f595513726.txt).

Volume 5, August 20, 2009 for the WSL Updates mailing list

Topics include:

1) FREE NANCY PEARL READERS’ ADVISORY WORKSHOPS

2) WLA SAM SUPERVISORY WORKSHOP CANCELED

3) FREE LIBRARY 2.0 AND GOOGLING TRAINING

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