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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">The State Library of Oregon and the State Archives are teaming up to co-host an exhibit space at the 2024 Oregon State
Fair. The exhibit will highlight the rich history of barns in Oregon, while also educating people on the difference between materials held by the State Library and the State Archives.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">As the Special Collections Librarian, it was up to me to pull together materials that both highlight barns and showcase</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="#_msocom_1"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;text-decoration:none">
</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">the types of materials we hold at the State Library. After doing a quick search in our catalog, I jotted down several call numbers and went into
the stacks to pull barn-related items. As I was finishing up in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) section, my hand brushed past a yellow single-paged flyer with vibrant red text. Curious, I pulled out the flyer and found a very peculiar document. It
was a USDA publication advertising building plans for a “Bunker-type Fallout Shelter for Beef Cattle,” published in 1964.Right away my interest was piqued. I wanted to know if any of these barns had been built in Oregon, and if so, are there any still in existence
today? While I couldn’t determine if there were any fallout shelter barns built in Oregon, I did learn a little bit more about these barns.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Doing a little digging, I found that in 1963, the Roberts Dairy Company of Elkhorn, Nebraska, along with the Office
of Civil Defense and the USDA, set out to see if cows could still produce milk and survive in a bunker in the event of a nuclear attack.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="#_ftn1"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%">[1]</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">
This project was particularly of interest to the U.S. Government during the Cold War, as milk is very susceptible to radiation. Two students from the University of Nebraska were chosen to be locked away in a fallout shelter barn with thirty-five Guernsey cows
and one Guernsey bull for two weeks. The students had separate living quarters, with their own ventilation system, as well as plenty of food and water. They emerged two weeks later with their bovine roommates ready to eat cold food, as there was no refrigerated
access in the bunker, but otherwise in good spirits. The cows weighed slightly less but were still producing milk despite being underground for so long.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="#_ftn2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;text-decoration:none">
</span></a><a href="#_ftn2"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%">[2]</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"> The Roberts Dairy Company concluded that the fallout shelter barn
provided a viable way of producing milk safely in the event of a nuclear attack.
</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="#_ftn3"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%">[3]</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"> Just one
year later, the USDA published the flyer I found advertising plans for fallout shelter barns. Other flyers would follow, including another one held by the State Library that could hold 50 cows and had family quarters.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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any information about fallout shelter barns in Oregon, we would love to hear about it.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="#_ftnref1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">[1]</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
McNichols, L. (n.d.). Roberts Dairy CompanyFallout Shelter Test Concluded. Civil Defense Museum.
<a href="http://www.civildefensemuseum.com/coreng/elkhorn/RobertsDairyShelterTest08231963.pdf">
http://www.civildefensemuseum.com/coreng/elkhorn/RobertsDairyShelterTest08231963.pdf</a>
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Sheltering cattle.(n.d.-a).https://www.nebraskastudies.org/en/1950-1974/civil-defense/sheltering-cattle/
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paper collection. In the early 2000s, we began collecting digital publications as well. That collection now includes both born-digital publications and digitized publications from our physical collection. The digital collection also includes federal government
publications, particularly those related to the Pacific Northwest, non-governmental publications on Oregon history and culture, and the Oregon Index, a file of thousands of cards that index Oregon newspapers.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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sound effects and a short theme song composed and recorded by Studio Coordinator, Max H. Robinson to open and close each story. These books are in the final stages of review and will soon be available to users of the Oregon Talking Book and Braille Library
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Oregon has been experiencing its share of heat waves this year. Many, if not most, library buildings across the state
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and stacks. Opening the windows could bring in cool air on summer mornings (possibly along with the occasional insect or bird). Since the windows opened outwards, they were secured by a pair of wingnuts, which sometimes expanded in the heat and were difficult,
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were fairly effective, if rather noisy. The building's wiring presented certain challenges and at least one office could only have the window AC on if they didn’t turn on anything else that used electricity (Note: This was in the pre-computer days!).</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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and the stacks. The Reference Room is a high-ceiled, majestic space. During hot weather it was very difficult to cool. Staff used large electric fans to keep the room habitable; these sometimes blew around any papers that weren’t weighted down. Even with the
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to allow for cooling. As in the Reference Room, staff used fans when they were working in the stacks, but the breeze sometimes blew items off of the shelves, especially in the periodicals collection.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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damage paper, as can ultra-violet light. The stacks have west-facing windows, and staff sometimes left the blinds open to let in cooler air. This caused book covers that were exposed to the sun to fade. There are even some items in the collection with the
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<p class="last-child1"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%">In Oregon, public libraries are required to receive a prescribed amount of their overall funding from public funds, also known as taxes. Most public libraries receive that tax funding through
the city or county budget process. An alternative and more stable way to fund a public library is through a voter-approved special or county service district, which has its own tax rate and its own governing body to manage the library for a special district.
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</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://my.nicheacademy.com/orlibdistricttoolkit"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%">Oregon Library District Toolkit</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">.
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is an online, self-paced tutorial with three hours of content, example documents, and additional resources that can assist communities in generating stable funding for a local public library by creating a district.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Jen started her library career as a Teen Services Librarian with Seattle Public Library in 2006, and has since worked
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