state library

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The state library was awarded $15.7 million for the year, and was still owed about 21% of that.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2025

There is no known precedent for a similar library district to simply be dissolved, shuttering the library, said Derrick Nunnally, a spokesperson for the Secretary of State’s Office, which oversees the state library.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 13, 2023

Last month, a copy of “The Bounty Trilogy” by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, published in 1932, was returned to a Washington state library 81 years after it was checked out, CNN reported.

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2023

For one assignment, after a few days’ digging at the state library, Anne brought home a list: the names of the human beings one of our not-so-distant ancestors had owned.

From Washington Post • Nov. 12, 2021

The documentaries were ordered from the state library and usually selected by Ahmed Kathrada, who was our section’s librarian.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela