These media mentions are compiled by Brian Zylstra, Deputy Communications Director for the Office of the Secretary of State, and passed along to us.

The following links cover Media Clips provided August 06, 2009 – September 04, 2009.

Children’s Literature 101: How to peruse your library’s collection at home? (Examiner.com)

Ritzville residents submit first entry in Carnegie library state tour (Ritzville Journal, August 6)

Library groundbreaking to open next chapter for Vancouver (Columbian)

Castle Rock library levy too close to call (Longview Daily News)

‘Hungry Monkey’ author at Ballard branch of Seattle Public Library (Seattle Times)

Voters OK Columbia County library measure (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, August 19)

CR library levy appears to have passed (Longview Daily News)

Budget gap to shut down Seattle libraries for a week (The Big Blog/Seattle P-I)

Library seeks to replace retiring director (Olympian)

Seattle libraries close, city employees furloughed (AP/Seattle Times)

Seattle is shrewdly minimizing budget pain for library patrons (Seattle Times editorial)

“Wayfinder” aims to connect Washington libraries’ millions of items (Tacoma Daily Index)

Did we miss a big library story from your area? Let us know!

For more library news, check out our other postings under News and Updates.

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).

These media mentions are compiled by Brian Zylstra, Deputy Communications Director for the Office of the Secretary of State, and passed along to us.

The following links cover Media Clips provided June 01, 2009 – June 26, 2009.

Rediscovering the library (Yakima Herald-Republic, May 30)

Timberland OKs late-book fees (Olympian, May 30)

Grand library road trip starts here (Columbian, May 31)

Mind your manners at the library (Seattle Times editorial)

Free audiobook options for great roadtrips with kids (Examiner)

Library measure trails; service cuts are likely (Olympian)

Fines become fact of life for library system (Olympian editorial)

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Clippings, June 17, 2009

Library News

The goal of the Friends of the Library, organizers of the “I Topped the Rock to Save the Library” event, is to raise $12,000 to keep the Castle Rock Library open through next April.  A library levy failed in November by just nine votes, another levy is on the August 18 ballot.  (Photo) (Daily News [Longview], 5.23.09) http://www.tdn.com/articles/2009/05/23/top_story/doc4a17500d23b26387147931.txt

Despite the objections of one of its members, the Camas City Council approved $550,000 in library bond interest expenditures.  The designated expenditures will be for books and materials, land acquisition, and machinery and equipment.  (Camas-Washougal Post Record, 5.26.09)

The Digital Bookmobile owned by OverDrive Inc., a major supplier of online audio books visits the Everett Public Library and Monroe Sno-Isle Libraries branch.  The Digital Bookmobile is an 18 wheel big rig equipped with broadband Internet connections, six big screen HDTVs, and 11 computer stations.  (Photo)  (The Daily Herald [Everett], 5.26.09) http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090526/NEWS01/705269869

The Seattle Public Library Board of Directors voted May 27 to alter the rules of conduct for the Central Library and its neighborhood branches.  (Real Change [Seattle], 6.3.09) http://www.realchangenews.org/index.php/site/archives/2577/

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