<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Hello all:</font><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">The Orbis Cascade Alliance has launched its new Digital Collections initiative with funding from the LSTA program of the Oregon State Library and has hired Anneliese Dehner as the Metadata Applications Librarian who will support the project along with the Content Creation & Dissemination Program Manager and the Digital Collections Working Group. </font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 22.08px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">This initiative will </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 22.08px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px;" class=""></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 22.08px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px;" class=""></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 22.08px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px;" class=""></span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 22.08px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">build capacity for digital collections metadata cleanup, training, and support. This includes implementing the Alliance's </span><a href="https://www.orbiscascade.org/digital-collections-documentation/" style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; -webkit-appearance: none; color: rgb(103, 48, 166); text-decoration: none; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 22.08px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Dublin Core metadata standards</a><span style="font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 22.08px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">, building a sustainable aggregation infrastructure at the Orbis Cascade Alliance, developing replicable supports, and making an application to be a </span><a href="https://dp.la/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; -webkit-appearance: none; color: rgb(103, 48, 166); text-decoration: none; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 22.08px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Digital Public Library of America</a><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 22.08px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> hub. Dehire joins the Alliance staff as a contractor to support the analysis, cleanup, and aggregation of digital collections metadata from Alliance institutions. She brings in-depth knowledge and experience in this work that she has used as an independent contractor and former library staff member from Lewis & Clark College. </span></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 22.08px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 22.08px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">The training, documentation, and other supports for this work will be designed to be broadly applicable and made publicly available at </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><a href="https://www.orbiscascade.org/digital-collections-documentation/" class="">https://www.orbiscascade.org/digital-collections-documentation/</a></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">For more information on this initiative, see <a href="https://www.orbiscascade.org/digital-collections/" class="">https://www.orbiscascade.org/digital-collections/</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Best, Jodi</font></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Jodi Allison-Bunnell<br class="">Program Manager</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Unique and local content, Archives West, archival collection management</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Orbis Cascade Alliance<br class=""><a href="mailto:jodiab@orbiscascade.org" class="">jodiab@orbiscascade.org</a><br class="">(406) 829-6528<br class="">fax (860) 540-8281<br class=""><br class="">My office: </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I am in western Montana, in the Mountain time zone </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Alliance offices: </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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