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Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
The Northwest Room has a new exhibit to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Great Fires in the Northwest. This year's "Spokane is Reading" selection is Timothy Egan's The Big Burn and the Northwest Room's exhibit should whet your appetite to read this fascinating book. Egan tells the story of ...
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Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
There is a new display in the Northwest Room called "Documenting the Northwest: A display of historic federal documents to celebrate Spokane Public Library’s centennial as a federal documents depository." Congress established the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) in 1813 “to ensure that the American public has access to its ...
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
HistoryLink.org - Washington's free online history encyclopedia has created a "comprehensive roster of Washington state citizens -- more than 9,000 as of 2005 -- who gave their lives in the service of their communities and country." This includes the military personnel, public safety personnel, law enforcement officers and ...
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
As part of The Big Read, the library's Northwest Room presents a new exhibit of banned books. Books are generally banned or suppressed on political, sexual, religious or social grounds. To Kill a Mockingbird, this year's featured book for The Big Read, is one such book. Since its publication in 1960, ...
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Saturday, August 29th, 2009
In honor of workers in the Northwest and just in time for Labor Day, there is a new photographic exhibit up in the Northwest Room. Titled "At Work in the Northwest," it features images of miners, loggers, farmers, railroad workers and others doing their jobs. The photographs illustrate the tremendous ...
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Sunday, July 19th, 2009
The Special Collections at the University of Washington and Washington State Universities combined forces to create this digital collection of Early Washington maps. It's easy to search and there are maps of the entire state from the earliest surveys through the completion of the Grand Coulee Dam. We have some of ...
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
We have a new exhibit up in the Northwest Room. It's called "Wish You Were Here! Postcards from Spokane." It features postcards of Spokane from the early twentieth century into the 1970s. It is divided into five areas - views of Spokane, picture postcards, postcards of Spokane's parks and nearby ...
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
The Northwest Room has an impressive collection of historic maps. The collection includes maps of Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, the West, exploration, railroad surveys, and mining. The maps have long been a part of the collection in the Northwest Room, but they are now accessible through the SPL online ...
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
There's a new exhibit up in the Northwest Room display cases. It's called "Transient Documents: Ephemera of the Northwest." As I have been getting to know the Northwest Room collection, I have discovered some great examples of ephemera. If you're not familiar with the term, ephemera are sometimes defined as ...
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Hi. I'm Riva Dean - the new Northwest Librarian. I’m thrilled to be working in the Northwest Room. I’ve been working in libraries and archives for 25 years and have a MA in Northwest History so this is the ideal job for me. I’m getting to know the wonderful collection ...
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