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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><img width="94" height="91" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.png@01D0098A.84B20360" alt="State seal2"><img width="623" height="74" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image006.png@01D0098A.84B20360" alt="title"></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Kate Brown, Governor</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">State Library<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">250 Winter St. NE</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Salem, OR 97301-3950<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">(503) 378-4243<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.6pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Fax (503) 588-7119<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Contact: MaryKay Dahlgreen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> State Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> 503-378-4367<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">December 17, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Oregon State Library Receives Preservation Assistance Grant
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Oregon State Library is pleased to announce that it has been selected to receive a Preservation Assistance Grant for Smaller
Institutions from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The $5,981 grant will be used to purchase archival (non-acidic, non-lignin) pamphlet binders and envelopes to rehouse more than 3,500 items from library’s Oregon history and culture collection which
are in danger of deterioration in their current acidic enclosures (please see photos below). The rehousing project will be completed by members of the Government Information and Library Services division by the end of 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The mission of the Oregon State Library is, in part, to provide “leadership and resources to continue growing vibrant library
services” for “the Legislature and state government.” Maintaining a research-level library collection on the history and culture of Oregon is a key tool to support the work of state elected officials and state agencies. With more than 70,000 titles, the Oregon
history and culture collection <span style="color:black">has items from as early as 1789 to the present day and covers all phases of Oregon history: from early exploration and Old “Oregon Country,” the Territorial period, and statehood to recent events in
the 21<sup>st</sup> century. The collection contains monographs, journals, magazines, newsletters, pamphlets, maps, ephemera, and a small number of audio-visual items. The materials are available to state government agencies and officials, and to the general
public during Government Room hours (Monday to Friday, 1-4 p.m.).</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Here are two examples of deteriorating, acidic enclosures currently housing items from the Oregon State Library Oregon history and culture collection. These will be replaced
by non-acidic, archival-grade envelopes and pamphlet binders purchase with money from the Preservation Assistance Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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