<p>This year’s award winner is the <em><strong>UO Libraries’ Oregon Digital Newspaper Program (ODNP)</strong></em>.
ODNP is recognized for the program’s positive impact on Oregon
libraries and residents in digitizing historic Oregon newspaper content
and making it freely available to the public through a
keyword-searchable database.</p><p>The ODNP resource, offers users
access to more than 180,000 pages of content from 31 Oregon newspapers
dating from 1846 to 1922. Samples of historical research by public
users include such varied topics as the 1905 World’s Fair in Portland,
Hawaiians in Oregon, bicycling, tattoos, salmon, and even peanut butter
can be found on the ODNP blog.</p><p>ACRL-Oregon commends this team for
their initiative in pursuing grant money to assist in funding the
project and their commitment to making searchable historic content more
widely accessible.</p><p>ODNP is funded through a combination of grants from the <em>Library Services & Technology Act (LSTA)</em>, the <em>National Endowment for the Humanities</em>, the <em>Oregon Cultural Trust</em>, and the <em>Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association</em>.</p>
<p><strong>Karen Estlund</strong>,
Associate Professor and Head of Digital Library Services at the
University of Oregon, will accept the award on behalf of the team at the
ACRL Oregon & Washington Joint Fall Conference 2011.</p><p>The project database is available now in beta form (<a href="http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/" target="_blank">http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/</a>)</p><p>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p>
<p>The
annual ACRL-Oregon Award for Excellence recognizes an individual or
group who achieves excellence in the field by significantly improving
Oregon academic libraries or librarianship.</p><p><em>Think you know someone that deserves recognition? Send in a submission next year for the 2012 award!</em></p>