[Heritage] Oregon Heritage News 2013-11-26

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In this issue:
1.  Recommendations made for Oregon's digital collections
2.  Records management guide developed
3.  Archives group seeks conference presentations
4.  Klamath County records list updated
 
 
RECOMMENDATIONS MADE FOR OREGON'S DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
 
A half dozen recommendations for coordination of digitization
activities statewide have been included in a report prepared for the
Oregon State Library. The recommendations include coordination of grant
funding for digitization, adoption of digitization standards, training,
metadata content standards, and other proposals.
 
The Oregon State Library contracted with Danielle Cunniff Plumer, a
consultant specializing in collaborative cultural heritage digitization,
for the report. It includes information about existing collections, a
review of grant funding, identification of models for statewide
collaboration, and the recommendations for collaboration.
 
The report is available at:
http://www.oregon.gov/osl/LD/Pages/projects/digicollections/index.aspx
 
 
RECORDS MANAGEMENT GUIDE DEVELOPED
 
The State Historic Records Advisory Board has prepared a
self-assessment guide to assist governing boards, directors and staff
members of historical repositories with strengthening their organization
and its work in preserving Oregon’s documentary heritage.




Completing the self-assessment will help leaders, staff and volunteers
in your organization to highlight strengths and identify areas that need
additional attention and development.  With this knowledge, your
repository can establish reasonable goals for improvement and develop
short- and long-range plans. Identification of needs is also the first
step in seeking assistance with training or funding.​​​​ The guide is
available at
http://sos.oregon.gov/archives/Pages/resources-for-repositories.aspx
 
ARCHIVES GROUP SEEKS CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
The Northwest Archivists is seeking presentations for its annual
conference May 29-31 in Spokane. "Moving Forward: Reaching New Audiences
With the Past" is the conference theme and planners are looking for
presentations about new ways of reaching new audiences with the past by
using archival collections.
 
Complete information is available at
http://northwestarchivistsinc.wildapricot.org/callforproposals2014
 
 
KLAMATH COUNTY RECORDS LIST UPDATED
 
The Oregon State Archives has updated its inventory to Klamath County
public records. The inventory listings describe records available to
researchers at the State Archives, county offices, local museums and
other repositories. For information about the guides for Klamath and
other counties, visit
http://sos.oregon.gov/archives/Pages/records/county_records_guide.aspx
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