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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Contact: Wendy Cornelisen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:49.5pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">State Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-indent:49.5pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">503-378-4367<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">5/25/2022<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Salem, Ore -</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
The State Library of Oregon and its partners, Oregon Heritage and the Washington State Library, are pleased to announce the first anniversary of Northwest Digital Heritage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:115%"><a href="https://oregon.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=91dd1172fce9a235a5e993c03&id=73fbe13305&e=fcfe25ac6a" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Northwest
Digital Heritage</span></b></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> is a collaborative, regional effort to help support and increase access to digital collections from libraries and cultural heritage
institutions throughout Oregon and Washington. Since its official launch in late May 2021 – and despite a myriad of challenges during the pandemic – the project has met some significant milestones during its initial year, including: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Over 190,000 digital item records from Oregon and Washington-based collections now available via the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)’s Northwest Digital Heritage (NWDH)
hub <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Collections from 115 different libraries, museums, historical societies, and other cultural heritage organizations represented <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">An advisory group from contributing institutions formed to help identify potential access points for collections <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ongoing outreach to other organizations to pull future collections into Northwest Digital Heritage <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Over the next two years, the program plans to bring even more organizations and collections across the Northwest
region into the fold, and both Oregon Heritage and the State Library of Oregon are very excited to bring new funding opportunities, a centralized digital repository, and in-person digitization support to Oregon libraries and organizations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">To learn more about Northwest Digital Heritage, please visit
</span><a href="https://oregon.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=91dd1172fce9a235a5e993c03&id=d10e0db40a&e=fcfe25ac6a" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">northwestdigitalheritage.org</span></b></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">,
contact us via our website, or email Ross Fuqua, Data & Digital Projects Consultant for the State Library of Oregon, at
</span><a href="mailto:ross.fuqua@slo.oregon.gov" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ross.fuqua@slo.oregon.gov</span></b></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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