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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(77,77,79)">Iris Godwin is the Head of the Special Collections and
University Archives and Alla Powers is the </span><span style="color:rgb(41,40,41)">Special Collections Librarian </span><span style="color:rgb(77,77,79)">at the
Oregon Institute of Technology. Please download and read their latest article, “</span><span>Developing Special
Collections of Interest to Local Communities,” here:<br>
</span><a href="http://journals3.library.oregonstate.edu/olaq/article/view/vol26_iss1_4" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span>http://journals3.library.oregonstate.edu/olaq/article/view/vol26_iss1_4</span></a></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span><span></span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">

</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(77,77,79)">For several years, Iris was Head of the Technical Services
Department. She received her B.A. in history from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee
and an MLIS from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville with an emphasis on
archives and special collections. In February of 2018, she earned the SAA Archives
and Description Certificate. She currently serves on the Alliance, Unique and
Local Content Team and chairs the Archival Collection Management Standing
Group.</span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br><span style="color:rgb(77,77,79)"><span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">

</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(77,77,79)">Alla Powers: My experience in the library world goes back to
1988. In my home country, Russia, I worked in academic and public library
settings. In the United States I briefly worked in the Klamath County Library,
and in 2004 I began my career in the Oregon Tech Library. Right from the start
I was involved in both patron service and collection development, adding
metadata to the scanned photographs for the Klamath Waters Digital Library. And
so my love for digital content was born. Since then I expanded my experience by
working with several digital collections. The work in the Special Collections
is very versatile and challenging, and involves learning new skills. For example,
mastering EAD encoding for creation of Finding Aids for the Archives West
website.</span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Thank you,</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Charles Wood</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">OLA Quarterly Coordinator</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(77,77,79)"><span></span></span></p>





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