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Travel books
Stuff for Sale!
National Volunteer Work
Library Conference Fun
It's National Library Week – Celebrate your Library
Happy Birthday Beverly
New Beginnings
Library 2.0
Literary Hoaxes
Tech-NOs
And the Winner Is...
Catch and Release
Olympia Report
The Second Half
What Happened to the Trees?!
Take the Challenge
Tax forms and more at your local library
Poetry, Poetry, Poetry
The Year Ahead
Our Stories
Boxing Day
Autobiography vs Memoir
The Library of the Future
Where We Stand
Calling All Genealogists
See What You Can Do
Millennium is Here!
Millennium Working to Serve You
Welcome to the Millennium
The Importance of History
What a Way to Go
Free People Read Freely
Our Amazing Washington State Library
Got Buddies?
The Results Are In
Thanks to Ruth Offen
Time to Cultivate
Books to Grow With
Thanks to All Our Friends!
Recreational Reading
Harry Potter Mania!
One Down, Two to Go
Trading Spaces
Report on Washington, D.C.
Thanks to Richard Civille
We Love Summer!
Mid-Year Progress Report
Rural Libraries in Washington D.C.
13 Library Services
New Face at the Library
May is Better Speech Language and Hearing Month
Going Places
The State of America’s Libraries
Thank You Volunteers!
Friday Night Alive
Entering a New Millennium
Keep Checking Us Out
Trustee Retreat
Fond Farewell
Library Legislative Day
Spring Forward Early
Travel with a Cause
Overdues
American Library Association – the "working conference"
Live and Learn
San Juan Island Reads - The Human Factor
Librarians in Seattle
A Look Ahead
Year in Review
New Library Website
Friends of Library
Flag at Half Staff
Historical Newspapers
Outreach Programming Survey Results
More Books, Please!
Shifting Collection
Outreach Programming Survey
What Should I Read Next?
Teen Read Week
Local Authors
Library Trustee Opening
Celebrating the Freedom to Read
Request for Ideas
Literary Salon early this month
September Project
And The Winner Is...
A Round of Thank Yous
Remembrance in the Library
San Juan Island Youth
Treasure or Trash
You've gotta have friends
Summer Reading Madness
New Orleans
Au revoir Lauren and welcome back Laura!
Finishing the San Juan Island chapter
My Penultimate Column
Commencement - San Juan Style
All but 876 accounted for
Ode to Kathy
New faces
Trustees wading through deep pool of candidates
All but 876 accounted for
Ode to Kathy
New faces
Trustees wading through deep pool of candidates
Even Libraries have to do Inventory
Our Course is Set
Meeting afloat
Learning to Whistle
More than the population of Miami
Friends Wanted
Volunteering at the Library
Are You a Borrower or a Keeper?
Common Musings
Blogs and RSS
New Computers: Teens Only??
Buzz, Buzz, Buzz
Retiring librarians
Help us be Good Neighbors
National Exposure
Beginning a long range plan
Following the dream
Teaching the thrill of the hunt
Whew! What a Year!
Boxing Day
6 5 6 11 6 5 6 11 6 5 6 11
Are Some Books Garbage?
Wanted: Interislanders
Tumbling for Adults
Movies! Movies! Movies!
Resources customized to your group
An Elf in the Library
Going beyond the walls of the Library
Make a Book
The greatest deal in town
The real literati
Little puppy is big news
Column #177
Importance of trustees
Are You a Computer-phobe?
Rant at the Library!
Back to School at the Library
They Really Do Make a Difference
Ribbons and Beads
Summer Reading
World of Reading by Beth Helstien
Volunteering At the Library by Kathy Babbitt, Volunteer Coordinator
View from the Library - by Shannan Sword
Shhhhhh...
Free and equal access
New Youth Services Librarian starts Wednesday
Treasure Cove destination for books
In Print
Be Kind - Rewind
Countywide Community Reads Project: A Sudden Country
The Laptops Are Coming...
An Everyday Miracle
El Sombrero de Tres Picos has returned!
S is for Stress
Floyd to the Rescue
Bon Voyage, Laura
Going, going, gone
Art in the Library
The Pleasure of Business as Usual
Are You Ready?
Another peek at renovation
Laramie Project discussion and sneak peek at renovation
Progress Report
Road Trip!
Worth 10,000 Words
Point-of-View
Calling All Kind Hearts and Strong Backs
Help in reading drama
Renovation update, January 9, 2005
At last!
If You're Concerned (or Just Curious)
The Joy of Re-Reading
Holiday films available at library
Tumbling through books
Beginning in sight for library renovation
The Laramie Project: more than just a play
Library helping library
Library and Museum Team Up
Todos de los Santos Today and Tomorrow
Standing-room only at new book club
May Your Conscience Be Your Guide
What a Great Plan! - Part Two
Bios are us
What a Great Plan! - For The Moment
Banned Books on Display
Stock up on books for November
Join in "The September Project
Family-friendly approach to learning English
Book Learnin' Isn't All "How-To"
Library's levy lid lift more than a decade old
I Learned It From A Book
Remembering Jasmine
CIPA Update
I never thought I'd say these words, but...
Flags Will Be Flying High on the Fifth
Wealth of weather on Web
Teens learn and earn at the library
The Joy of Formline Art
Summertime is Library Time
It's a Book! It's Art! No, It's Book Arts!
Library in the hands of Buffalo Design
More Than Just Money
Give a Child a Priceless Gift
Let's Celebrate!
Pulitzer prize winners value readers
Weeding in the Library Garden
I Was a Teenaged Library Dogs
100th view from the library
Calling All Inventors
Filtering mandatory on library computers
National conference generates new ideas for local library
Plus ça change, plus c´est la même chose
Art @ the Library
So Much Information - With Just a Click
Thanks to Vedder and Schuster
A Culture of Volunteerism
Invitation to the next Literary Salon
Children's Choice Book Awards
The Art of Booktalking
Church and State
Please and Thank You
Habla Español?
The Next Decade
Library serves multi-faceted community
Amateur Mechanics - This One's For You
There's an association out there for you
Legaltrac available at San Juan Island Library
Help Chart Our Course
The Arkangel Has Come
Latest medical info at your fingertips
Test yourself online
Facts at your fingertips
Gathering place in cyberspace
Happy Anniversary
Wander Through the 811.54 Section
The Ministry of Funny DVDs
The Rest of the Story
Shhhhhh.....
We're Going to the Dogs
The Computer Shuffle
23rd Annual Friends of the San Juan Island Library Book Sale
The 21st Century Commons
CIPA and the Library Board
Annual conference and Toronto both great
A library district is ...
Latin Lessons
Sponsor a book, go to the head of the line
Birds, birds, birds!
Always on Sunday
Kelp, kayaks and kudos
Tech specialist logs off
Out of the Darkness, There Came a Light
What is an ISBN?
Everybody Google
Looking forward to the next 52
LC Rules!
Why we spring forward
Feedback wanted on new online card catalog
Island demographics eye opening
Community discusses "To Kill A Mockingbird"
Library not immune to crime
Find more than you are looking for at the library
Freedom to read essential
Read the book first
State library under attack again
Remember to improve your memory at the Library
Pick up tax info at the library
There Will Be No Quiz
A Year by Any Other Calendar
A global perspective on Christmas
Balancing Privacy and Protection
Gates, Gateway make viewing computer screen easier
Time to find those lost books
The Truth about Thanksgiving
More changes at the library
The variables of value
It's That Time Again
A dazzling smile
Log on and research before you vote
The Salon, Island Style
Calling All Film Buffs
Pink Cloud Turning Gray
A Little Tolstoy, Anyone?
Love of books rekindled in Colorado
Hard to let go of peace and quiet
We Love Kids at the Library!
How Does That Book End Up On the Shelf? part II
Summer fun
How Does That Book End Up On the Shelf?
Big Louie Calling
Invasion of the Bibliomaniacs!
Grassroots Really Works
Libraries not as free elsewhere
Libraries bridging the gap
Celebrate the Freedom to Read!
Join the Parade of Favorite Books
Literary multi-tasking
Immerse yourself in the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Dewey will always be in the library
Island connections
Library will be open on Sundays year round
Libraries have role in emergencies
Library staff is at your service
Help Illahee celebrate 75th birthday
No apologies for Great Reads
Volunteers appreciated at San Juan Island Library
State library restructured

Lauren Stara
Director, San Juan Island Library
phone number 360.378.2798
e-mail lstara@sjlib.org
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