This edition brings stories of Strange Things in Strange Places (experiences in unexpected places), and we’ve got a slew of them. Teen librarian Jesten Ray (p. 29) recounts her recent time volunteering at the Seattle Municipal Archives and how it helped her discover something—she still likes cataloging after years out of library school, information to tuck away for future career endeavors. Without Seattle Municipal Archives, we wouldn’t have located so easily the supremo photos that run with Ray’s piece. For this issue’s cover, we also came across a sublime photo of the Seattle Public Library Central Branch under construction, circa 2003. Thanks, SMA! Congrats, SPL, on ten years in May in this Rem Koolhausdesigned building. Former King County teen librarian Rosemary Clawson (p. 10) walks us through her outstanding two-week trip to Germany, and it wasn’t just the superb libraries and the overflow of Gutenberg info that makes it a country to be experienced first-hand. Tony Wilson (p. 8) takes us on the best parts of an entertaining and rather unusual library conference he attended somewhere between the United States and Alberta. Brent Mills (p. 22) explains how time studying in Ghana revaamped the way he thinks about information accessibility and use.
Alki Editor: Joyce Hansen,
Alki Editorial Committee: Diane Cowles, committee chair; Stephen Bailey; Sheri Boggs; Theresa Kappus; Emily Keller; Brent Mills; Tami Robinson; Anna Shelton; Tony Wilson
Alki was designed by Tammy Reniche, Director of Publications for Melby Cameron & Anderson.
Cover photo: Seattle Public Library under construction in 2003. In May, 2014, SPL Central Branch celebrates ten years in this building designed by Rem Koolhaus.” Courtesy of the Seattle Municipal Archives
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by Jennifer Wiseman
by Joyce Hansen
by Jared Mills
by Tony Wilson
by Rosemary Clawson
by Tami Echavarria Robinson
by Darcy Brixey
by Mary Fran Ryan
by Jesten Ray
by Brent Mills
by Kirsten Edwards
by Jeanne Fondrie
by Cameron Johnson
by David Wright