A brief primer on Special Collections resources at the Oregon State Library

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A brief primer on Special Collections resources
at the Oregon State Library

• presented by
• Dave Hegeman
• Special Collection Coordinator
• dave.b.hegeman_at_state.or.us
• 503.537.5006

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About the Oregon State Library

• Founded in 1906
• WPA building dedicated 1939
• Three-fold mission

. . . provide quality information services to
Oregon state government provide reading
materials to blind and print-disabled Oregonians
and to provide leadership, grants, and other
assistance to improve local library service for
all Oregonians.
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OSL Government Research Servicesmission focus

• Preserve and provide access to government
  information (esp. Oregon)
• Serve Oregon agencies and elected officials

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Accessing OSL collectionsin person

• Located in Salem just northwest of the Capitol
• Reference Room open 10-5 M-F
• Circulating items may be checked out by Oregon
  residents
• 24-hour notice required for Special Collections
  materials
• Call ahead!

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Accessing OSL collectionsonline

• OSL Online Catalog
• http//catalog.willamette.edu/screens/opacmenu_s2.
  html
• Online access to Photograph Collection
• http//photos.lib.state.or.us/
• Oregon document repository
• http//oregon.gov/OSL/GRES/REPOS/index.shtml

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Highlights of OSL Special Collections
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Highlights of OSL Special Collections

• Historic Oregon Documents
• Monographs, serials, maps, posters, media
• Agency annual reports, Voters Guides
• old State laws regulations, budgets,
  statistics, illustrations
• Online repository http//oregon.gov/OSL/GRES/REPO
  S/index.shtml

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Highlights of OSL Special Collections

• Historic Oregon Documents

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Highlights of OSL Special Collections

• Historic Oregon Documents

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Highlights of OSL Special Collections

• WPA Federal Writers Project
• Manuscript materials and photographs
• Historical topics local history (cities and
  towns), folklore, geographic names, Oregon
  Dictionary
• Collection is split between OSL and U of O
• Scope document

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http//library.state.or.us/repository/2009/2009112
41402172/
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Highlights of OSL Special Collections

• WPA Federal Writers Project

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County local history files at OSL (rest are at
University of Oregon)
BentonClatsopCoosHood RiverJosephineLinnMorr
owMultnomahTillamookUmatillaUnion
WascoWashington
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Highlights of OSL Special Collections
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• Historic Photographs
• Collections Trover/Cronise, Siegmund Brothers,
  WPA
• Focus on legislators and governors, government
  buildings, Willamette Valley area
• Pre-1950
• Online search http//photos.lib.state.or.us/

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Highlights of OSL Special Collections

• Historic Photographs

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Highlights of OSL Special Collections

• Historic Photographs

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Highlights of OSL Special Collections

• Historic Photographs

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• Oregon Index
• Card index to Portland and Salem newspapers
  1900-1986
• Additional indexing to Oregon Voter, selected
  books and magazines and mss resources at OSL

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Highlights of OSL Special Collections

• Maps
• Focus on Oregon and the Northwest 1850s to the
  present
• Metsker County Maps in albums from the 1920s thru
  1950s (multiple editions per county)
• Local maps too

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Highlights of OSL Special Collections

• Maps

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Highlights of OSL Special Collections

• Maps

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Additional items of note at OSL

• Oregon Poetry Collection
• Genealogy Collection
• Oregon history and culture materials
• Oregon literature before 1990
• Pioneer documents on MF

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Stuff not at the Oregon State Library

• Leglistative minutes, audio records
• Oregon legislative bills (slip laws)
• Agency correspondence, memos, internal documents,
  unpublished reports
• Local government documents
• Local newspapers
• Oregon Higher Ed documents spotty after 1990

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For more informationabout Special Collections at
theOregon State Library

• Reference Phone [phone]
• Webpage
• http//www.oregon.gov/OSL/GRES/special_collections
  -GRES.shtml
• Dave Hegeman
• Special Collections Coordinator
• dave.b.hegeman_at_state.or.us