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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">October 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 the Athena Public Library are proud to announce a new digital collection,
</span><a href="https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.northwestdigitalheritage.org%2Fs%2Fs%2Fathena&data=05%7C01%7CSadie.VERVILLE%40slo.oregon.gov%7C7e779426d76d448e60f408daabe12ebc%7Caa3f6932fa7c47b4a0cea598cad161cf%7C0%7C0%7C638011280890164423%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=5%2B%2BjT341%2BtMfy%2B5q89X99cgLpSJ3tsrsZyGioid9LFE%3D&reserved=0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Athena
Heritage</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">. The Athena Heritage collection includes dozens of images and documents from the Athena Public Library’s Local History Collection, recently
digitized and hosted online through the State Library’s </span><a href="https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.northwestdigitalheritage.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7CSadie.VERVILLE%40slo.oregon.gov%7C7e779426d76d448e60f408daabe12ebc%7Caa3f6932fa7c47b4a0cea598cad161cf%7C0%7C0%7C638011280890164423%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Ukx3V9X3l8iisoXivdYA7BsaD8l6NxTrfLl3nCes5FA%3D&reserved=0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Northwest
Digital Heritage</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> program. These items will also soon be discoverable in the national
</span><a href="https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnwdh.dp.la%2F&data=05%7C01%7CSadie.VERVILLE%40slo.oregon.gov%7C7e779426d76d448e60f408daabe12ebc%7Caa3f6932fa7c47b4a0cea598cad161cf%7C0%7C0%7C638011280890164423%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=UzNND%2BNTUxkVj7GtAg5%2BUzZGPIipyktH6HgSGJ%2FggGA%3D&reserved=0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Digital
Public Library of America</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> (DPLA) platform, via Northwest Digital Heritage’s DPLA hub efforts. Photos and documents were mainly contributed by local schools
and families within the community. <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;color:black">Athena Heritage is Oregon’s very first brand new digital collection to come online via Northwest
Digital Heritage. “Using the Washington State Library’s Washington Rural Heritage program as a model,” says Digital Projects Consultant Ross Fuqua, “Northwest Digital Heritage seeks to create and enhance access to collections at Oregon’s smaller libraries
and museums through digitization and metadata harvesting, training, and also by migrating existing digital collections to more accessible platforms. We’re really excited to digitize even more material from the Athena Public Library’s collection this fall,
and we’re looking forward to working with more Oregon organizations in the near future.”
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<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;color:black">Northwest Digital Heritage is a partnership between the State Library of Oregon, Oregon Heritage,
and the Washington State Library. To date, Northwest Digital Heritage has added over 200,000 unique items related to Northwest history and culture, and has recently worked with the Orbis Cascade Alliance, Oregon Digital, and University of Washington Libraries
to create a distinctly Northwest portal of over a half million unique items available at:
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<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;color:black">To view Athena Heritage, please visit
</span><a href="https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.northwestdigitalheritage.org%2Fathena&data=05%7C01%7CSadie.VERVILLE%40slo.oregon.gov%7C7e779426d76d448e60f408daabe12ebc%7Caa3f6932fa7c47b4a0cea598cad161cf%7C0%7C0%7C638011280890164423%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=4%2FJu%2FMboFTRA89357yv%2FyMsqTixrzxaa6OhHu6z5f2Q%3D&reserved=0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">northwestdigitalheritage.org/athena</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">.
For questions and inquiries about Northwest Digital Heritage, please contact Ross Fuqua, Data & Digital Projects Consultant, State Library of Oregon, at
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