SOLF Southern Oregon University Hannon Library February 2, 2007 SOUTHERN OREGON DIGITAL ARCHIVES (SODA) History Collection

Southern Oregon Digital Archives

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

Title: Oral history interview with Gladys Peebler Choose title

Metadata easily available Metadata

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 user- friendly 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