[Heritage] Oregon Heritage News 2021-02-05

Fri Feb 5 11:47:59 PST 2021

Oregon Heritage News 2021-02-05

In this issue:

  *   Explore Oregon's Black history this month
  *   COURTESY NOTICE - 8807 RFP Disaster Inventories
  *   New on the blog: Main Street Creative Collaborations
  *   Virtual Brown Bag Lunch Feb. 18:  What to Expect When You are Researching in a Pandemic
  *   2021 National Visitation Survey for History Organizations
  *   Storytelling for Justice webinar Feb. 10
  *   REALM webinar recording and new toolkit resource available
  *   FREE AASLH recorded webinar: Is Your Organization Ready for Self-Assessment?
  *   NAO's 2021 Guiding More Good Virtual Conference is now open for registration
  *   LYRASIS offers free Copyright 101 online class Feb. 24

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Explore Oregon's Black history this month

Black History Month is a time to shine a light on Black history nationally and locally here in Oregon. At a time when racial inequity has been at the forefront of the local and national news and critical conversations, it is important to remember the history that led to this point in time.

Through the 2020-2025 Oregon Heritage Plan<https://www.oregon.gov/oprd/OH/Documents/2020_Oregon_Heritage_Plan.pdf>, the Oregon Heritage Commission supports finding, telling, and preserving Oregon's untold stories. In our statement on Addressing Racism in Historic Place and Heritage Organizations<https://www.oregon.gov/oprd/OH/Documents/AddressingRacismHeritagePlan.pdf> we recognize that historically, Oregon's stories have been told in these memory institutions from a perspective of the majority, excluding the voices of people of color. While we still have a lot of work to do to document and include different voices, many heritage organizations have started to recognize and change this inequality. For those that are doing this work, thank you, and for those that want to start doing this work, we will support you the best we can by creating tools, opportunities for starting these conversations in your community, and by bringing forward the stories of organizations and people who are doing this work and leading by example.

Below are some ways to explore Black history in Oregon and nationally and we hope that you will continue to find and explore more stories beyond February.

Oregon Opportunities:

  *   Oregon Black Pioneers<https://oregonblackpioneers.org/> online History Map<https://oregonblackpioneers.org/history-map/> documents locations across Oregon related to African American history.
  *   Learn about an African American logging community here in Oregon by viewing the Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center's online video collection<https://www.maxvilleheritage.org/video-collection/>.
  *   Check out the The Living Archive<https://www.vanportmosaic.org/the-living-archive> of the Vanport Mosaic project.
  *   Blacks in Oregon<https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/blacks_in_oregon/#.YBxkkOeIbcs> by Darrell Millner, Oregon Encyclopedia (Oregon Encyclopedia just re-designed their website so be sure to check out!).
  *   Learn more about Portland's African American history by reading the nomination form for the recently National Register of Historic Places listed African American MPD<https://www.oregon.gov/oprd/OH/Documents/OR_MultnomahCounty_AfricanAmericanResourcesinPortlandMPD.pdf>.
  *   Oregon Online Exhibits:

  *   Racing to Change: Oregon's Civil Rights Years<https://www.ohs.org/museum/exhibits/racing-to-change-oregons-civil-rights-years.cfm>, presented by the Oregon Black Pioneers at the Oregon Historical Society
  *   Racing to Change: Oregon's Civil Rights Year<https://mnch.uoregon.edu/exhibits/racing-change-oregons-civil-rights-years-eugene-story> - The Eugene Story, Museum of Natural and Cultural History (this exhibit was a recipient of a 2020 Oregon Heritage Excellence Award, to see more of the project, its inclusive community involvement, and acceptance speeches visit here<https://youtu.be/TWEbKgbskB4>)
  *   Black in Oregon 1840-1870<https://sos.oregon.gov/archives/exhibits/black-history/Pages/default.aspx>, Oregon State Archives

National Opportunities:

  *   How Black Women Changed the Face of Education in America<https://savingplaces.org/stories/black-women-activism-and-brown-vs-board-of-education?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=weekly~BrownVBoardWomen%7d#.YBxgM-eIbcs>, National Trust for Historic Preservation
  *   Green Book Sites<https://savingplaces.org/green-book-sites#.YBxgeeeIbcs>, National Trust for Historic Preservation
  *   Virtual Exhibits<https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/exhibitions> at the National Museum of African American History & Culture
  *   Association for American State & Local History (AASLH) has some recorded conference sessions and resources related to diversity available for free during this month, such as Conference Session Black Museums Matter: Agents of Change Through Storytelling as Places of Healing<https://learn.aaslh.org/products/recorded-session-black-museums-matter-agents-of-change-through-storytelling-as-places-of-healing> and Technical Leaflet 291: Telling Inclusive Stories When Your Collections Are Stuck in the Past<https://learn.aaslh.org/products/technical-leaflet-291-telling-inclusive-stories-when-your-collections-are-stuck-in-the-past>. Check out their Resource Center<https://learn.aaslh.org/> for other free learning opportunities.
  *   Black History Month Initiatives on Main Street<https://www.mainstreet.org/blogs/national-main-street-center/2021/02/04/black-history-month-initiatives-on-main-street>, National Main Street Center

The State Historic Preservation Office is hoping to gather more stories about Oregon's African American through a recently awarded grant from the National Park Service. The project will document historic places throughout the state related to African American history and create a document and nomination for the National Register of Historic Places. This document will be used as a recourse for people preserving and sharing this important history and making it is easier to nominate additional properties to the National Register in the future. If you have information to share about African American history in their communities, please submit it through this online tool<http://makeoregonhistory.org/>.

If you are wanting to find untold stories in your communities but don't know where to start, check out Heritage Bulletin #34: Researching Historically Marginalized Communities<https://www.oregon.gov/oprd/OH/Documents/HB34_Researching_Historically_Marganized_Communities.pdf>.

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COURTESY NOTICE - 8807 RFP Disaster Inventories

This COURTESY NOTICE is being emailed to you at the request of the OPRD staff.  The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, on behalf of the Oregon Historic Preservation Office, is issuing a Request for Proposals for professional consulting services to develop a model asset inventory and implementation guidance for heritage and Main Street organizations and to complete inventories for three organizations with heritage related collections and one Main Street organization. The term of the Contract is expected to be approximately 4 months to comply with the requirements of the grant funding OPRD has received.

The ORPIN Opportunity Number is OPRD-3120-21 You will need to register on ORPIN, if you have not already done so, and then download all of the attachments to be fully informed about this opportunity. ORPIN LINK: https://orpin.oregon.gov/open.dll/welcome

Additional Information:

BACKGROUND
OPRD is seeking to develop a model asset inventory and implementation guidance for heritage and Main Street organizations and to complete inventories for three organizations with heritage related collections and one Main Street organization. The inventories will document the asset types, volume or number, location, materials, and risk factors. They will be used by organizations to prioritize relocation, protection, and recovery efforts in case of an emergency or disaster. The model will be used by other organizations for their own inventories. The project is funded through a grant from the Oregon Cultural Trust, so quality and timeline are critical.

2.0      SCOPE OF WORK
The project will require the selected contractor to research and prepare a database or spreadsheet and maps for organizations to track inventory of organizational assets and heritage collections and guidance for doing, using, and updating the inventory. The inventories will be for collecting organizations and for a main street organization. The main street organization will include building and business inventories of the main street area.

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New on the blog: Main Street Creative Collaborations

With the 2021 Oregon Heritage Summit: Collaboration is Key approaching, we are taking the opportunity to highlight some examples of creative collaborations in the Oregon Main Street Network. Check out the latest Oregon Heritage Exchange Blog post<https://oregonheritage.wordpress.com/2021/02/05/creative-collaborations-support-vibrant-downtowns/> for great examples of accomplishing great work through successful collaborations.

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Virtual Brown Bag Lunch Feb. 18:  What to Expect When You are Researching in a Pandemic

What: Virtual Brown Bag Lunch:  What to Expect When You are Researching in a Pandemic

When:  Noon, Thursday, February 18, 2021

Where:  Zoom

Cost:  Free and open to the public

Learn more about how to research virtually with Salem archives, libraries, and genealogical organizations through COVID-19 closures.

More information can be found here: https://www.willametteheritage.org/research/pandemic/

Facebook Event: https://fb.me/e/1xCPc3rab

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2021 National Visitation Survey for History Organizations

AASLH is now accepting responses for our third annual "National Visitation Survey for History Organizations," the only national effort to monitor and report on in-person visitation trends at history museums, historic sites, and other history organizations. Click here<https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Visitation2021> to submit a response from your institution.

This year's survey is especially important, as it will allow us to assess the impact extended closures from COVID-19, climate change, social unrest, and more had on our institutions last year. In addition to asking about changes to in-person visitation from 2019 to 2020, we've added a special section to this year's survey asking about the impact of the pandemic on closures, capacity restrictions, and staffing at organizations of all types and sizes.

Your response is absolutely critical to this effort. With information about budget, staffing, and visitation on-hand, the survey should only take about ten minutes. Your contribution to this survey will help the entire field better understand the impact 2020 had on the history community and help AASLH provide better resources and support for the road ahead. Please complete the survey and encourage colleagues at other institutions to do the same. All survey respondents will receive free, priority access to a report of our findings.

The survey closes on March 31.

Take the Survey<https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Visitation2021>

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Storytelling for Justice webinar Feb. 10

Feb. 10, 5 pm ET online conversation

Mellon Foundation President Dr. Elizabeth Alexander will lead a wide-ranging conversation with Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla D. Hayden, UCLA Professor/Project Director, Million Dollar Hoods Dr. Kelly Lytle Hernández, and Liberatory Memory Worker and PhD candidate of the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University Jarrett Martin Drake. The panelists will discuss how libraries and archives are both empowering underrepresented communities and advocating for increased representation of marginalized stories and experiences in our country's historical record.

Join us as we learn about the power and potential of these memory institutions to confront race, policing, and mass incarceration, to foster equity of access and participation, and to educate and train the next generation of librarians, archivists, and activists.

RSVP at the link below
https://www.mellon.org/news-blog/articles/storytelling-justice-how-libraries-and-archives-hold-history-account/

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REALM webinar recording and new toolkit resource available

The recording of the 29 January Reopening Archives, Libraries, and Museums (REALM) webinar, "Project Update and Community Reflections," is now available on demand. Panelists shared updates on project activities and research findings as well as perspectives from the field. View the Recording<https://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/realm-update-reflections.html?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=REALM+webinar+recording+and+new+toolkit&utm_campaign=&utm_term=REALM%20Project%20Email%20Updates>.

A new toolkit resource that synthesizes information from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on cleaning and disinfecting considerations is also available for download. View the Resource<https://www.oclc.org/realm/resources/cleaning-considerations.html?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=REALM+webinar+recording+and+new+toolkit&utm_campaign=&utm_term=REALM%20Project%20Email%20Updates>.

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FREE AASLH recorded webinar: Is Your Organization Ready for Self-Assessment?

The  Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations (STEPS)<https://aaslh.org/programs/steps/> is a self-paced, self-assessment program for small- and mid-size organizations including those managed solely by volunteers. With a recently updated workbook that contains expanded guidance for essential topics like diversity and inclusion, you will be able to gain a birds-eye view of your organization.

Is your organization ready for self-assessment? Join AASLH for this free, one-hour webinar to hear how STEPS can help your organization create a road map for meaningful change.

View recorded webinar here<https://learn.aaslh.org/p/event-stepsready-2021feb>.

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NAO's 2021 Guiding More Good Virtual Conference is now open for registration

Date
Saturday, March 13, 2021
8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (PT)

Cost
$65 for NAO Members
$99 for Yet-To-Be Members

Carrying on the Center for Nonprofit Stewardship's tradition, Nonprofit Association of Oregon (NAO) presents the 2021 Guiding More Good Virtual Conference. This conference will bring together expert speakers, practical resources, and the opportunity for virtual networking. Smaller nonprofits, primarily those that are all-volunteer or with 1-2 staff members are encouraged to attend to attend!

Subject-matter experts will present on the following topics: fundraising, finance, and governance.

Closing keynote speaker - Shari Dunn, CEO/Principal of ITBOM. Shari was featured in the most recent episode of NAO's podcast - The Public Space<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0010usUELdRianmSHXOquvyeSU-6Sm8PGBBUM_wIz7ZKlnWZMkzoLHeqGrdriJbl_dlvFRH_dd-QDh633zgLc5He17mBUK8mq7ivdzkjZ8frGudeMtmxqTy64KLemHgHYJC6ckns2xwYppkGFrXFd5utOsT8maWiEtpHP01i0RzdqPhgnN_NL8dZA==&c=30FOxGjgaH5a7YWyxzbjXIZmdsY4fuA5h3JvDC6rA2Vn5_npgCZrYg==&ch=NjwAo89RqkvyZyelX_97O1Z391XNuWtsrF8MbhbMMMvwO9KMzJpaMQ==>.

For more information about this conference, including session descriptions, conference agenda, and scholarship opportunities, click here<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0010usUELdRianmSHXOquvyeSU-6Sm8PGBBUM_wIz7ZKlnWZMkzoLHeqGZlTD-5d7PxKBSM47S4fsGxALINCnQpfU__uHfVbi4I6BPaOuTDOlR1xk_4ns4rGWEYnCIw-HSkp_aXxdRJYurW1bFfqVKeJIUDoYlDGhDyiOk61hF9FgyiYVZznJSCNw==&c=30FOxGjgaH5a7YWyxzbjXIZmdsY4fuA5h3JvDC6rA2Vn5_npgCZrYg==&ch=NjwAo89RqkvyZyelX_97O1Z391XNuWtsrF8MbhbMMMvwO9KMzJpaMQ==>.

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LYRASIS offers free Copyright 101 online class Feb. 24

Copyright 101<https://www.lyrasis.org/Content/Pages/Event-Details.aspx?Eid=93588736-AE4E-EB11-80EF-00155D0A2721>
2/24/2021 1:00 - 2:30 Eastern, free session
Heather Briston,Head of Curators and Collections, UCLA Library and Melissa Smith Levine, Director, Copyright office, University of Michigan Library

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Oregon Heritage News is a service of Oregon Heritage, a division of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. The news editor can be contacted at heritage.info at oregon.gov<mailto:heritage.info at oregon.gov>.

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