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<title>Connections: Your Link to the State Library of Oregon (December 2024)</title>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1"><strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Digital Collections Are Back!</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo1"><strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Everything Everywhere all at Once: Descriptive Audio for Videos
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">The State Library has been collecting and cataloging state publications since it was commissioned in 1907.Over the years, these agency reports have morphed
from print into digital versions and with some only available online. To keep up with this technology, the State Library uses software to create a digital bookshelf, where you can find these digital materials. Like all technology, upgrades are needed from
time to time. In 2023, the library began a rigorous request-for-proposals and evaluation process to select a new platform for our digital collections. In April 2024, we began the process of migrating our digital collections to their new electronic home. The
migration temporarily limited access to digital items, requiring people to work directly with staff to access materials. Now nearly complete, we are excited to announce over 164,000 Oregon government publications are once again available online! <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">We invite you to explore our Digital Collection by visiting
<a href="https://digitalcollections.library.oregon.gov/"><span style="color:black">https://digitalcollections.library.oregon.gov/</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">The Upgraded features include full-text searching and other improved search options. We will also be able to better showcase the depth of our collection
highlighting Oregon’s people, places, and events. <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">The Digital Collections support our mission of fostering government transparency and civic education by ensuring consistent and coordinated permanent
public access to Oregon state publications. In addition to the publications produced by state agencies, our digital collections also include non-governmental publications about Oregon, and federal publications about Oregon and the Pacific Northwest.<br>
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While the bulk of the migration is complete, we are still doing some fine-tuning. Many of the links from our main catalog do not yet go to the new site, so you may have to re-do your search directly in the new site to find the items you’re looking for. We will
have the links updated in the main catalog and WorldCat soon. <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">Also coming soon: more than 8,000 historic photographs of a variety of Oregon topics. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">By Max Robinson, Administrative Specialist and Recording Studio Coordinator, Oregon
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Watching a movie or a TV show is something everyone should be able to enjoy. Here at the Oregon Talking Book & Braille Library, we use donation funds
to buy DVDs equipped with Descriptive Audio so our users can take part in this pastime. We make use of the Audio Description Project (ADP), a project of the American Council of the Blind (ACB), to help us select movies that are equipped with audio description. <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">So, what exactly is audio description? According to the ADP, “it is a narration service (provided at no additional charge to the patron) that attempts
to describe what the sighted person takes for granted - those images that a person who is blind or visually impaired formerly could only experience through the whispered asides from a sighted companion.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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network television providers offer descriptive audio via Smart TV functionality and/or apps. And it’s not just for people with low vision or blindness! Descriptive audio can be beneficial for people with learning disabilities, English Language learners, and
fans of complex science fiction or fantasy shows with lots of a new vocabulary that may be unfamiliar to viewers.
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Currently, we have over 800 DVDs in our collection and are adding more each quarter. Just like our other services, Talking Books users can call or email to have a DVD sent to them for free, via USPS mail. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="last-child1">Every September, the State Library’s <a href="https://libguides.osl.state.or.us/oifc">
<span style="color:black">Oregon Intellectual Freedom Clearinghouse</span></a> (OIFC) releases a report detailing the previous year’s challenges to materials, services, and programs at libraries and schools across the state. <o:p></o:p></p>
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were reported in Oregon from July 2023 to June 2024 at 40 different public libraries, schools, and colleges. 151 items were challenged in those incidents, setting the record for the most items challenged in Oregon (the previous record was set last year at
93). <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">This record comes amidst a similarly record-breaking year of challenges at the national level. The
<a href="https://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10"><span style="color:black">American Library Association (ALA) reported</span></a> that 2023 saw the most attempts to censor library materials since they began collecting statistics. <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">Many of the materials challenged are youth and teen items. Common objections included claims an item depicts sex, nudity, violence, or abuse; contains
profanity; is unsuited to its target age group; includes 2SLGBTQIA+ content; or expresses an objectionable viewpoint.<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">No matter the stated reason for a challenge, one pattern is clear: the incidents and challenged materials are disproportionately about, by, or centered
on the stories of individuals who belong to an underrepresented protected class under Oregon law. Of the 151 items challenged during this time frame, 132 told the stories of one or more underrepresented groups, with 66% focused on 2SLGBTQIA+ people and 22%
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Challenge incidents exact a financial toll on organizations and a mental toll on the people who respond to challenges. The State Library thanks the staff
and volunteers, including members of <a href="https://www.olaweb.org/intellectual-freedom-committee-home">
<span style="color:black">OLA’s Intellectual Freedom Committee</span></a>, who respond to challenges, who report these challenges to OIFC, and who continue to ensure their collections and services represent their diverse communities in the face of opposition. <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">For any questions about the OIFC report, please contact Buzzy Nielsen, Program Manager for Library Support, at
<a href="mailto:buzzy.nielsen@slo.oregon.gov"><span style="color:black">buzzy.nielsen@slo.oregon.gov</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://northwestdigitalheritage.org/"><span style="color:black">Northwest Digital Heritage</span></a>, our collaboration with
<a href="https://www.oregon.gov/oprd/OH/Pages/default.aspx"><span style="color:black">Oregon Heritage</span></a> Commision and the
<a href="https://www2.sos.wa.gov/library/"><span style="color:black">Washington State Library</span></a>, Office of the Washington Secretary of State, supporting digital collections throughout the Northwest. <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">As part of the Northwest Digital Heritage program, the State Library now maintains a digital repository for small libraries, museums, and cultural heritage
organizations in Oregon to host their local collections. These collections include historic photographs, documents, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and images of physical objects, as well as more contemporary images of communities and landscapes throughout
the state. Organizations we are proudly hosting collections for include: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://dp.la/"><span style="color:black">Digital Public Library of America</span></a> (DPLA), a national platform for the discovery of cultural heritage items. To date, there are over
<a href="https://nwdh.dp.la/"><span style="color:black">950,000 records</span></a> from over 250 libraries, colleges, museums, and community organizations in from Oregon and Washington, as well as digital collections from the University of Idaho Library. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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the Oregon Center for the Book logo (a book “wearing” a pair of headphones), was a great conversation starter, and we stamped over 1,800 maps! Accessibility and the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS) library network were also steady
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of Congress, at the reception the night before was “a highlight of [her] life.” Both our teen and children’s book selections sold out at the Poetry and Prose bookstore. <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">Back in Oregon, we arranged for Dane Liu, author of our children’s selection, to visit the Talking Books offices in Salem and record her book
<em><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Laolao’s Dumplings</span></em> for inclusion in the NLS catalog, for national distribution. She is the first author to narrate their own book for us, and a video of her visit and a short interview will be
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