Oregon Documents Depository Program Centennial

The Oregon Documents Depository Program celebrates its centennial with an online exhibit at http://library.state.or.us/Centennial/. The Depository Program continues to provide paper documents to depository libraries, and now also archives born-digital Oregon documents. The web exhibit includes a history of the program, and information about the electronic Oregon Documents Repository.

In addition, the exhibit includes two collections of digitized documents:

• "Documents That Changed Oregon" highlights eight important issues in Oregon politics in the last 100 years, and features documents important to those issues. We gratefully acknowledge the Southern Oregon University Library for their digitization expertise.
• "Fun Stuff" is our celebration of the unusual and quirky items in our Oregon Documents collection. It includes tests for a 1930 eighth-grade diploma, a 1937 pamphlet about teenage drivers, an extremely hand-done brochure about rabies from 1961, and a 1913 German-language publication encouraging German immigration to Oregon.

The web exhibit, and the sample pages in the "Fun Staff" section, are the work of our summer intern, Sarah Coehlo.

We hope you enjoy celebrating our centennial with us!

Jey Wann
Oregon Documents Depository & Acquisitions Coordinator Oregon State Library 250 Winter St. N.E.
Salem, OR 97301-3950