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SNAPSHOT: a day in the life of the Washington State Library

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011 Posted in For Libraries, For the Public | 4 Comments »


Today is Washington Library Snapshot Day!  Hundreds of libraries throughout Washington State are collecting photos, stories and statistics, offering a glimpse into a single day in the life of their organization.

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In the meantime, here’s our first snapshot of the day–Digital Collections librarian Laura Robinson working with volunteer Gordon Russ. Gordon has been volunteering with the State Library for approximately 5 years, doing everything from processing vertical files to moving library materials to acid free storage. Here he is working on our historic newspaper indexing project.