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Library News

Ridgefield library celebrates 100 years (The Reflector, Battleground, 09/10/14).

Opening the book on health: KVH Community Health Library serves community, staff (Daily Record, Ellensburg, 09/05/14).

Timberland Libraries boost service hours.
Library patrons in the five-county Timberland Regional Library (TRL) service area asked for longer hours: as of September 2, they’ve got them! District-wide, 26 libraries and the Ask-A-Librarian service added hours – a total of 58 more each week. The increased scheduled comes at no additional cost. (Pacific County Press, South Bend, 09/04/14).

SCLD launches business card: New card provides businesses with access to digital resources.
Born out of a desire to help local businesses prosper, grow or begin, the Spokane County Library District (SCLD) is launching a new card designed just for business users. (The Current, Liberty Lake, 09/00/14).

Rural library district creates ‘digital petting zoo’ with grant: Tour of items planned for this fall.
The Libraries of Stevens County was one of 12 libraries awarded a grant this summer to support digital literacy efforts in Washington State. The grant cycle provided funding for digital literacy projects which focused on giving patrons the ability to perform business transactions in a digital environment, using technology to retrieve information and helping patrons to develop skills to enhance their employability by using email and online job searches. (The Independent, Chewelah, 09/11/14).
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Library News

New checkout for library (Spokesman Review, 08/21/14).

Timberland extending hours: District wide, 58 open hours added each week.
Library patrons in the five-county Timberland Regional Library (TRL) service area asked for longer hours. And according to TRL officials, starting September 2, they will have them. District wide, 26 libraries and the Ask-A-Librarian service will add hours- a total of 58 more each week. The increased schedules come at no additional cost. (The East County Journal, Morton, 08/27/14).

Officials to advise assessor on property tax shift: Commissioners will make recommendations at Tuesday meeting (Skagit Valley Herald, Mount Vernon, 05/09/14).

Bellingham library open Sundays beginning Sept 7.
The central branch of Bellingham Public Library will reopen on Sundays staring Sept. 7. The library at 210 Central Ave will open 1 to 5 pm on Sundays because the Bellingham City Council included money in the 2014 budget, which was adopted in December, to restore the hours. (Bellingham Herald, Bellingham, 08/30/14).
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Library Clippings for the week of September 19, 2014

Library News
Puyallup Library takes joy in connecting books and readers: Library offers for free what people are paying for online. (The Herald, Puyallup, 08/13/14).

Volunteers and tutors needed at library. (Sentinel, Goldendale, 08/20/14).

Library boss search down to three.
Three finalists- one of them already working for the organization- have been named as the possible new Pierce County Library System executive director. (South Pierce County Dispatch, Eatonville, 08/20/14).

Three finalists selected for library system executive director.
The Pierce County Library System is in the final stages of identifying and hiring a new executive director. Three finalists identified are Nate Hill, Georgia Lomax and Jeff Scott. (The Herald, Puyallup, 08/20/14).

New Book-to-film group launched
The North Olympic Library System is launching a new book-to-film discussion group at the Port Angeles and Sequim libraries. Padge2Schree is a forum that explores themes and issues in classic and contemporary books and the movies inspired by them. (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, 08/24/14).
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Library News

Little Free Libraries show novel charm. (The Seattle Times, Seattle, 09/09/14).

What schools can learn from Starbucks: The Internet is making single-purpose spaces like libraries less relevant. Why not replace them with spaces students will actually use? (Daily Journal of Commerce, Seattle, 08/28/14).

Council weighs in on Library: staff and councilmembers talk about intricacies of library issues. (Mercer Island Reporter, Mercer Island, 08/13/14).

Drugs are topic for upcoming forums. (Snohomish County Tribune, Snohomish, 08/06/14).

Carpenter Library turns 100: hopes to expand in the next century. (Daily Record, Ellensburg, 08/13/14).

Beat the summer brain drain: SCLD offers support to keep students skills fresh.
“The summer slide is when kids lose skills they learned in school because they just aren’t practicing them during the summer.” The panoply of resources the Spokane County Library District provides ensures that there is something for both school children and lifelong learners to use to help them beat the summer brain drain. (The Current, Liberty Lake, 08/00/14). Read the rest of this entry »

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Library News
Wrapping up summer reading (Daily Record, Ellensburg, 08/06/14).

Toledo Library will officially open next week: August 13: Organizers hope volunteer effort pays off when doors open. (The Chronicle, Centralia, 08/05/14).

Library district seeks public input.
The Spokane County Library District will hold two meetings, starting today [July 22], to learn about people’s aspirations for and concerns about their community. (Spokesman Review, Spokane, 07/22/14).

Retrieving young readers: Therapy dog’s gentle presence encourages children to pick up book, read out loud at library. (The Columbian, Vancouver, 08/14/14).

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Third round of library pre-design meetings set (The Columbian, Vancouver, 08/15/14).

Public debates sites: beauty, practicality, costs discussed.
While residents and community organizations spoke out on where they want the new Silverdale Library, traffic and parking continued to be the main concerns during the Kitsap Regional Library’s board meeting Tuesday night. (The Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, 07/24/14).
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Library News
Mill A unveils Little Free Library
The Columbia Gorge community of Mill A is now one of many that boasts a Little Free Library. It joins more than 15,000 Little Free Libraries across all 50 states and in 40 countries in the world. Funds to support the project were raised through a club sponsored plant and bake sale. (The Skamania County Pioneer, Stevenson, 07/23/14).

Library planning ‘The Great Checkout’ during move.
In anticipation of the Ferndale Library’s upcoming move to its new building, staff plan to hold a “Great Checkout” event. The idea is for patrons to “help” with the move by checking out materials at the current location and returning them to the new location. (Ferndale Record, Ferndale, 07/30/14).

Parking the bookmobile: Library on wheels wraps up for the summer. (Daily Record, Ellensburg, 07/31/14).

Forum on Sky Valley drug use coming to library. (Monroe Monitor & Valley News, Monroe, 07/29/14).

Leave a book, take a book at Kennydale Book Exchange. (Renton Reporter, Renton, 08/01/14).
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Library News
Libraries vote in Stanwood?: a ballot measure to annex the city’s library into Sno-Isle likely.
(The Herald, Everett, 06/25/14). http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20140629/NEWS01/140629166

Library levy issue divides council. (The North Coast News, Ocean Shores, 07/17/14).
Mayor breaks tie on library levy ballot issue | North Coast News

BG man sentenced to one year in jail for starting fires in BG library: Love also wrote bomb threat on a bathroom wall at BGHS. (Reflector, Battle Ground, 07/16/14). http://www.thereflector.com/news/article_e02314be-0c69-11e4-bbe2-0019bb2963f4.html

Winlock residents to vote on annexation into Timberland Regional Library system: November ballot: county commissioners approve ballot measure for Winlock voters to decide on whether to keep contract or annex. (The Chronicle, Centralia, 07/22/14). http://www.chronline.com/news/article_0ce52f2a-11c7-11e4-ad6b-001a4bcf887a.html Read the rest of this entry »

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Library News

The Online Visioning Survey created to establish the direction of the Mount Vernon City Library closed on June 30. As of June 10, 222 surveys had been completed. (Skagit Argus, Burlington, 06/24/14).

Burlington Library has book kits available for checkout for two months at a time. The book kits are available for book clubs and discussion groups. (Skagit Argus, Burlington, 06/24/14).

Timberland Regional Library offers patrons unlimited free access to about 100 popular magazines. Cardholders can read the latest issues on their PC or Mac computers and most tablets and mobile devices. The startup collection includes a wide variety of magazines. The e-magazines are full-text and full-color and some provide additional content such as video, audio, and web links. (Chinook Observer, Long Beach, 06/18/14).

The North Central Regional Library System’s one and only bookmobile has been on the move. The mobile library has more than 3, 000 volumes and has been bringing the library experience to rural areas that don’t have their own libraries. (The Wenatchee World, Wenatchee, 07/11/14).

Little Libraries are springing up all over Ellensburg. The ‘take one-give one” Little Libraries are becoming popular all over the country. (Daily Record, Ellensburg, 07/15/14). http://www.dailyrecordnews.com/little-free-library/image_c806b2ce-0c4a-11e4-8caa-0019bb2963f4.html
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Library News
The University of Washington Libraries Special Collections has created a documentary from 35mm film discovered in an abandoned Seattle storage locker. The film, circa 1920’s, depicts the everyday happenings of people in Grays Harbor County. Created by Nicollete Bromberg, visual materials curator and Hannah Palin, film archive specialist, the 28 minute documentary, Grays Harbor Happenings, has garnered several awards and can be viewed on YouTube. (The Seattle Times, Seattle, 07/28/2014). http://seattletimes.com/html/movies/
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Seattle’s International District is home to the Eastern Café. In addition to food, coffee, and people there is a library. This library is the API Flying Bookshelf, a traveling library specializing in the works of Asian and Pacific Islander writers, artists, and scholars. Everything is based on the honor system and people may take a book and return it when they are done- no fines, no due dates. The API Flying Bookshelf covers a wide range of genres and issues and the plan is to “fly” it to different cafes throughout Seattle. (International Examiner, Seattle, 0716/2014). http://www.iexaminer.org/2014/07/api-flying-bookshelf-a-library-of-art-literature-and-visibility/\

The Morton City Council plans to discuss plans to put a Timberland Regional Library at the Morton Junior High School. Last fall, TRL officials in cooperation with Central College East (CC East) installed a library kiosk at the CC East campus for patrons. (The East County Journal, Morton, 06/18/14).
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The Silverdale Library is benefiting from the attention of the Kitsap County Rose Society. The Rose Society has been tending the roses outside of the Silverdale Library since 1999. Two to three hours a week volunteers tent the 17 bushes that make up the garden. Each rose has been donated by the society and on clean-up day the volunteers cut a bouquet to bring in to the library staff. It is the hope of the volunteers that the bushes will move when the library does. (Central Kitsap Reporter, Silverdale, 06/27/14). http://www.centralkitsapreporter.com/news/264780421.html

Port Angeles Library will offer free online tech courses. The North Olympic Library System will offer introductory classes that cover everything from sending and receiving email to navigating the web. More advanced users will benefit from the Microsoft Online Academy. Completion certificates are free and testing with official Microsoft Certification is available for a fee. (Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, 06/30/14).
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