Volume 21, Number 2

Partnerships: We Are Not Alone

Our WLA conference issue aims to extend the themes introduced in the Spokane conference sessions. Thanks to everyone who submitted articles and photographs. You gave me more than I could use, a good situation for any editor to be in.

Alki Editor: Cameron A. Johnson

Alki Editorial Committee: Lynn Barnes; Tami Echavarria Robinson; Brian Soneda; Rayette Sterling; Bonnie Taylor; Margaret Thomas; Mary Wise; Erin Krake, Intern; Carla McLean, Chair

Cover by Joan Blacker and Kevin Duncan

Download the full-color PDF issue below.

Table of Contents

Published July 2005

Features

Total Community Involvement

by Bonnie Taylor, Mid-Columbia Library

Diversity: Try Standing in Their Shoes

by Brian Soneda, Mount Vernon City Library

Togo and His Tale

by Katherine Combs, Sno-Isle Libraries

The Not-So-Odd Couple: Libraries and Unions

by Carla McLean, King County Library System

Two Association Presidents Look Back and Ahead

by Michael Wood, University of Washington

Scrutinizing Virtual Reference

by Margaret Thomas, Washington State University Energy Library

Twitterpated with Susan Stamberg

by Tami Echavarria Robinson, Whitworth College

Benicia’s Model ESL Program

by Mary Wise, Central Washington University

History in Place, History in Bits

by Rayette Sterling, Spokane Public Library

E-Learning for Library Staff

by Lynn Barnes, Pend Oreille County Library District

A Booming Partnership in Summer Reading

by Brian Soneda, Mount Vernon City Library

Columns

Up Front: The WLA President Speaks: The Washington Library Association: A Network of Partnerships

by Carolynne Myall

From the Editor: Alki Housekeeping

by Cameron A. Johnson

WLA Communiqué

The 2005 Workshop in Library Leadership

Turning Jewels into Scholarship Dollars

2005 WLA Awards

I’d Rather Be Reading: She Spies

by David Wright