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<p class="MsoNormal">A recent post on the Oregon Historical Society’s blog <i>Dear Oregon</i> captures the indexers’ perspective on two epic oral histories recently digitized as part of the LSTA-funded project
<i>Digitizing the Oregon Story: Creating Access to Significant Legal and Political Oral Histories</i>.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Read Sara Paulson and Cynthia Lopez’s post, <i>Indexing the Oregon Story: Providing Access to Library “Gold”</i>:
<a href="https://ohs.org/blog/indexing-the-oregon-story.cfm">ohs.org/blog/indexing-the-oregon-story.cfm</a>, then visit OHS Digital Collections (<a href="https://digitalcollections.ohs.org/digitizing-the-oregon-story">digitalcollections.ohs.org/digitizing-the-oregon-story</a>)
to check out the growing number of interviews available online, many of which will be accompanied by links to new or existing entries in The Oregon Encyclopedia (<a href="https://oregonencyclopedia.org/">oregonencyclopedia.org/</a>). The project is ongoing
through June 2020; the result will be sustained online access to Oregon history gold.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#232D33">This project is supported in whole or part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Library Services and Technology Act, administered by the State Library
of Oregon.</span></em> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">Shawna Gandy</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#548DD4">Library Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:gray">Oregon Historical Society<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:gray">1200 SW Park Ave. | Portland, OR 97205<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:gray">p: 503.306.5265<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:gray">e: <a href="mailto:shawna.gandy@ohs.org">
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