ONE MORE UPCOMING EVENT

An upcoming event at Seattle Public Library was inadvertently left off today’s eNews.  Because it may be of interest to some of our members or non-member subscribers, we felt it appropriate to send a follow-up announcement, just for this event.

Writing Your Memoir or Family History: a Workshop

Monday, July 18, 2016, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
The Seattle Public Library, Central Library, Level 4 – Room 1 – Washington Mutual Foundation Meeting Room

Join us for a FREE inspiring and entertaining two hour discussion, demonstration, writing, and sharing of memoir and family history, presented by Charley Kempthorne. Registration is required.  Kempthorne is editor of LifeStory Magazine, and author of For All Time: A Complete Guide to Writing your Family History, and Narrative Journaling: 28 Days to Writing for the Rest of Your Life. Some of the topics to be covered are: basic techniques of narrative (history) writing; using a journal to keep life history as you live it; writing extended captions for family photographs; and publishing your history for family and friends. He will be assisted by his wife, June Kempthorne.

Library events and programs are free and everyone is welcome. Registration is required. To register, send an email using Ask A Librarian, or call 206-386-4636 and ask for the genealogy desk.

See the website below for more details:
http://www.spl.org/calendar-of-events?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D119731549

JESS RAMEY HONORED AS VOLUNTEER OF THE QUARTER
The Board of Directors has named Jess Ramey as the honored Volunteer of the second Quarter of the year, in recognition of his extraordinary accomplishment of putting the SGS library’s collection of over 800 unidentified and uncataloged maps in order. Over many years the SGS built up this large collection, which was stashed in various places throughout the library.

Over a period of just eight months, Jess Ramey has processed this miscellany of maps, of widely varying size and date, to get them into the library catalog. Every map was unrolled and flattened, then identified by Jess and entered into an inventory. Finally, all the maps were reviewed, one by one, for inclusion in the library or for surplus. In all, 680 of the maps were designated for retention in our collection.

Jess then took the information from each map, assigned it a call number and entered it into the catalog. These maps have now all been labeled and are available to library patrons in the large map boxes. Our technology director is in the process of updating our online catalog. Once that major project is completed, the online SGS catalog will show these maps during a search.

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