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Archive for February, 2009

RIG Tour: Spokane County Law Library

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Thursday 2/26 at 3:30

Spokane County Law Library
421 West Riverside Avenue (Paulsen Bldg)
Suite 1020, Spokane, WA

Networking after the tour 
Madeline’s Café & Patisserie
707 W Main Ave
Spokane, WA

Reference Trivia @ Cafe Racer!

Monday, February 16th, 2009

RIG members, professionals, students, and friends are invited to a second night of Reference Trivia at Cafe Racer! Our first trivia night was a great success, with 30 MLIS students and professional librarians battling it out on their laptops.

When: Sunday Feb. 22, 5-8PM
Where: Cafe Racer.  http://www.caferacerseattle.com/
What to Bring: laptop (if possible, or you can join a team)
RSVP: Erik Rath @ books.and.bikes@gmail.com
 
In small teams, participants will search the internet for answers to trivia questions. The winning team members will win brunch at Cafe Racer, a gift certificate to 3rd Place Books, and RIG swag. 
 
Many thanks to Eric Rath for organizing this event. We’ll see you there!
Amy LaVare
Chair of RIG (Reference Interest Group of the Washington Library Association)

RIG Tours

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

The Reference Interest Group (RIG) of the WLA is beginning a series of monthly reference library tours of libraries in the Puget Sound Region.

Tours are free and are open to all.

Tours will take place on the first Wednesday of each month, beginning on February 4, of the King County Law Library, and March 4, of the Washington Talking Book and Braille Library.

The first tour this year will take place at the King County Law Library

(KCLL) on Wednesday February 4th from 3-4:30pm, followed by a happy hour at the Triple Door in downtown Seattle.

Rita Kaiser who is a Reference Services Librarian at KCLL will discuss the following topics:

1. How to translate legal questions into language you can understand 2. When to refer these questions to KCLL 3. What resources to use to answer legal based questions on your own

Please RSVP by email if you plan to attend – Stephanie Earls sce5@u.washington.edu.  Address is listed below:

King County Courthouse
Suite W-621
516 3rd Avenue
Seattle, WA 98104

Happy hour following at the Triple Door/Musiquarium Lounge located at:

216 Union St.
Seattle, WA 98101.

Hope to see you there!