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).

Clippings, June 12, 2009

Library News

Langley Library (Sno-Isle Libraries) display depicts the library from a humble beginning to the community hub that it is today.  As library users’ needs change, Langley Library continues to move forward, boldly facing the future to best meet the needs of tomorrow.  (Photos)  (South Whidbey Record [Langley], 5.20.2009)

The Bonney Lake Library and the Buckley Library (Pierce County Library System) host meetings to present preliminary recommendations for Pierce County Library System’s 20-year facilities plan “Library 2030.”  (Bonney Lake Sumner Courier-Herald [Kent], 5.20.09)

The city of Port Orchard revised its agreement with the Port Orchard Library (Kitsap Regional Library (KRL)).  Kitsap Regional Library is updating its agreements with all its libraries except Silverdale and Sylvan Way, where KRL owns the building.  (Independent [Port Orchard], 5.22.09) http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/kitsap/poi/community/45733882.html

Jodi Reng, Executive Director of the Timberland Regional Library, presented an annual update of the library system to the Pacific County Commissioners and managers of all of the libraries in Pacific County.  Reng quoted Charles Dickens “These are the worst of times; these are the best of times, “ explaining that in these tough economic times, people need their library like never before and services must be provided with fewer resources.   (Willapa Harbor Herald [Raymond], 5.20.09)

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