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Washington State Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the case of Sarah Bradburn, et al. v. North Central Regional Library District. Under the WA Constitution, must a library disable its Internet filter to allow adult access to consititutionally-protected speech.

"Isabel is a single, twentysomething thrift-store shopper and collector of remnants, things cast off or left behind by others. 'Glaciers' follows Isabel through a day in her life in which work with damaged books in the basement of a library, unrequited love for the former soldier who fixes her computer, and dreams of the perfect vintage dress move over a backdrop of deteriorating urban architecture and the imminent loss of the glaciers she knew as...

In 2004, the UW Libraries Special Collections received a donation of fifty-three 35mm nitrite film reels discovered in a commercial storage unit in Seattle. The films, ca. 1925-1933, are believed to have been made by Charles D. Anderson of the Anderson Photo Art and Commercial Photography of Aberdeen, Washington. UW Library staff set out to discover the deeper stories shown within the short films, and Aberdeen Museum volunteer Roy Vataja used contemporary...