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Library Archives Building Project Regional Archives Five Branches Central Eastern Puget Sound Northwest Southwest Puget Sound branch Serve multiple counties and the public Digital Archives Over 200 million records

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Library Archives Building Project

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Regional Archives

Five Branches
Central
Eastern
Puget Sound
Northwest
Southwest
Serve multiple counties and the public

Puget Sound branch

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Digital Archives

Over 200 million records
Nation’s first for electronic records
State of the art research

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Out of the Archives

Washington State Constitution
Legislative and Executive records
Gubernatorial papers
Election results
“Sasquatch” hair

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Present State of the Library

Located in a rented office building in Tumwater.
Consists of Washington State

and PNW history, culture, natural resources, and gov’t documents.

Inadequate environmental

standards for storing priceless territorial documents.

Annex is not readily accessible

to the public.

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Present State of the Archives

The potential for irreplaceable loss is critical.
Leaking water and sewer pipes

hang inches from priceless historic documents.

Three major floods since 1997.
1960s-era building does not have

sufficient fire suppression.

Over capacity since 2006.

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Future of the Archives and Library

Library-Archives Building
Addresses current issues
Consolidates facilities
HB 2015

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