In honor of Archives Month, the Washington State Archives is offering an open house tour and demonstration of its Cheney facilities on Tuesday, Oct. 12.
The event includes a 2:30 p.m. tour of the State Archives' Eastern Region Branch conducted by Eastern Regional Branch Archives Assistant Lee Pierce. A demonstration and tour of the Digital Archives will take place at 3:30 p.m.
Digital archivist Kerry Barbour and assistant archivist Larry Cebula will demonstrate the Digital Archives' website, and network administrator Harold Stoehr will lead a tour of its state-of-the-art facility.
The ERB Archives holds government records for 11 counties, cities, local government offices, school districts and cemetery boards.
Now in its sixth year of operation, the Digital Archives preserves almost 100 million records from Washington state and local governments.
Some posters of colorful birds-eye maps of Spokane and Port Townsend will be given away as door prizes to a few lucky visitors who come to the Cheney facilities on Oct. 12.
The Eastern Regional Branch Archives and Digital Archives facilities are located at 960 Washington St. in Cheney, on the campus of Eastern Washington University. Both are open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays, excluding state holidays.
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