Transcript SOUTHERN OREGON DIGITAL ARCHIVES (SODA) History Collection

SOUTHERN OREGON
DIGITAL ARCHIVES
(SODA)
History Collection
SOLF
Southern Oregon University
Hannon Library
February 2, 2007
Southern Oregon Digital Archives
http://soda.sou.edu
What is it?
The Southern Oregon History Collection brings
together books, maps, government documents,
oral histories, correspondence and miscellaneous
materials that document the unique historical
experience of Southern Oregon. Most materials
focus on historic era settlement or economic
development in Coos, Curry, Douglas, Jackson,
and Josephine Counties. Agriculture, mining,
forestry, commerce, education, government, and
politics, religious organizations, and social life of
the region are among the aspects represented.
Geographic area
 Geographically speaking, the region is
the northern part of the bioregion made
up of the Klamath, Siskiyou, and
Southern Cascades mountains, or
most of that portion of the apocryphal
“State of Jefferson” (northern-most
California and southwestern Oregon)
lands that lie within Oregon.
Project Partners
 Southern Oregon University
 Southern Oregon Historical Society
 Jackson County Library Services
 Josephine County Library System
Personnel involved
 Kate Cleland-Sipfle – Project Manager
 Jim Rible – Systems Librarian
 Sue Burkholder - Cataloger
 Dorothy Ormes - Cataloger
 Susan DeRosia – Digitization assistant
 Student assistants
Collaboration Issues
 Logistics of materials acquisition.
 Timely sharing and return of materials.
 Security of valuable materials at
digitization site.
 Copyright considerations.
 Identifying materials - some museums
don’t know what they have.
Access to materials
Collection contents
 Oral histories
 Maps
 Realia
 Images
Oral Histories
Maps
Early Jackson County toll roads, tunnels, ferries and bridges
by Lawrence E. Mark
Realia
 Booster brochures
 Stock certificates
 Program from Peter Pan
(1914)
 WWII air raid warden kits
Images
Oregon, the picturesque: a book of rambles in the
Oregon country and in the wilds of northern California
by Thomas D. Murphy 1917
Ashland in 1914
Searching the collection
Search term: oral history
Choose title
Title: Oral history interview with Gladys Peebler
Metadata
Metadata easily available
Highlights of year to come
 New partners
 New collections
 Effect of Southern Oregon
University budget reductions
New Partners
 Coos County Library Service District
 Coos Historical and Maritime Museum
 Chetco Community Public Library
(Brookings, Oregon)
 Gold Beach Public Library
 Port Orford Public Library
 Curry Historical Society
 Douglas County Library System
 Douglas County Museum of History &
Natural History
 Rogue River - Siskiyou National Forest
New Collections
 Goal—Southern Oregonians will better
understand their history through userfriendly Internet access to materials
representing Coos, Curry, and Douglas
Counties, and the historic impact of
Rogue River National Forest on
Jackson County.
Effects of budget reductions