Thursday, March 12th, 2015 Posted in Digital Collections, For Libraries, Grants and Funding, News, Training and Continuing Education, Updates | Comments Off on WSL Updates for March 12, 2015
Volume 11, March 12, 2015 for the WSL Updates mailing list
Topics include:
1) WASHINGTON RURAL HERITAGE GRANT CYCLE OPEN
2) RECORDED BOOKS ONECLICK RENEWALS
3) SAN JUAN ISLAND LIBRARY WINS AWARD
4) STORYCORPS COMES TO NISQUALLY
5) WELL-FED & WELL-READ – SUMMER MEAL SITES
6) FREE CE OPPORTUNITIES NEXT WEEK
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 Posted in Articles, For Libraries, For the Public, News | Comments Off on Congrats to Teeler and the Tacoma Public Library, winners of the 2012 Teen Video Challenge!
The winner of the 2012 Teen Video Challenge for the state of Washington has been announced! Own the Night by Teeler brought home first place this year. His video was created at the Story Lab at the Tacoma Public Library. He will win $275 and his library will receive $150 from the Collaborative Summer Library Program(CSLP), the organization sponsoring the contest.
The video and accompanying song were created by Teeler. The beat was provided by PeonBeats and remixed by Teeler. Teeler would like to show his appreciation to students at the Seabury Middle School and the Tacoma Public Library StoryLab.
There was stiff competition this year as we had six well made and creative entries submitted by teens from across the state. In addition to Teeler’s winning submission, there were videos from:
Form more information on the competition, please visit the CSLP website. A list of state winners from across the country can he found here.
Friday, September 4th, 2009 Posted in Articles, Digital Collections, For Libraries, For the Public | Comments Off on New Material for San Juan Island Heritage
From the desk of Evan Robb
Over the course of three intensive community digitization events last Winter, the San Juan Island Library pulled together an impressive array of materials for its 2008-2009 Washington Rural Heritage grant project. The Library asked its patrons to share historically significant photos, documents, and objects from their private collections, and they responded with zeal. The resulting San Juan Story Collection provides a fascinating look at the early people and places of San Juan Island.
I was present to help out with large-format scanning for the first event back in February, and was impressed by the operation. Community members filed into the Friday Harbor High School library on a Saturday afternoon, items in hand. There, they were greeted by Library staff and volunteers trained to scan materials and record detailed information about each item. In the main room, two flatbed scanners were kept humming all afternoon. In another room, three-dimensional objects and artifacts were photographed in an ad hoc studio. And in a quieter section of the library, a historian from San Juan Island National Historical Park recorded interviews with long-time island residents and natives. Islanders were able to hold on to their family treasures, leave with a digital copy in hand, and know that they had just made an important contribution to the telling of their town’s story.
A few highlights from this diverse collection include: Indian arrowheads found throughout the island; locally produced crafts like this tobacco sack quilt or this casserole dish; individual and group portraits; aerial views from around the Island; San Juan County’s first ambulance airplane; and the Islander, an early steamboat ferry.
View San Juan Island Library’s entire collection at http://www.washingtonruralheritage.org/sanjuan. To see their newest 2008 grant material, click here.
