Whatcom County Library System, 75th Anniversary CollectionWhatcom County Library System, 75th Anniversary Collection
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Current format, Website or Online Data, 2019-, , Available. Offered in 0 more formatsWhatcom County Library System, 75th Anniversary Collection is a project of Washington Rural Heritage, a collection of historically significant materials residing in libraries, heritage institutions, and private collections throughout Washington State. The collection includes photographs, documents, and artifacts that tell the stories of Washington's small and rural communities. Serving an area of over 2,400 square miles and passed by measure in 1944, the Whatcom County Library System is a dynamic organization that has striven from day one to serve its population where they are, including students in schools without libraries, elderly or developmentally disabled people living in communal homes, and incarcerated people in jail. The Whatcom County Library System, 75th Anniversary Collection documents the germination and growth of what has become an institution in Whatcom County—the rural library system itself. The collection presents a set of photos, historic memorabilia, and oral histories for each of the ten branches, the bookmobile and the administrative system. These items tell the story of the rural Whatcom County communities that worked together for a common cause and aspired to create a literate, resource-rich, and accepting region where people could open the door to the vast possibilities of society and the world. While the photos and memorabilia give tangible evidence of the people, places and activities that shaped library history, the oral histories capture that elusive spirit that still breathes in the libraries of Whatcom County today.
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- [Olympia] : Washington State Library, [2019-]
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