The OMA at JCLC

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Natalia Fernandez

The last Joint Conference of Librarians of Color (JCLC) took place in 2006, so it was very exciting to be able to attend JCLC in this year in Kansas City, MO. The conference theme was:  Gathering at the Waters: Celebrating Stories Embracing Communities.

JCLC brings together five associations of ethnic librarians, including:

The program is packed full of presentations related to addressing the library related needs of multicultural communities: JCLC Program

Overall it was an amazing experience and we can only hope that we don’t have to wait another 6 years until the 3rd conference!

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OMA Intern ~ Laura Cray

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Natalia Fernandez

Laura Cray, OMA Intern

The Oregon Tribal Archives Institute (TAI) could not have successfully occurred without OMA intern and TAI Planning Committee Member Laura Cray. Laura worked for the OMA in the Summer of 2011 as well as this past summer. In 2011 she wrote a number of blog posts pertaining to the site visits with Oregon’s nine tribes: Laura’s TAI Blog Posts

Recently, Laura was featured on the OSU History of Science Blog in which she discussed her TAI experiences. We are going to miss Laura but are excited for her as she continues working toward her History of Science Ph.D.!

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Braceros Program Photographs Exhibit

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Natalia Fernandez

Braceros Collection Exhibit

In honor of Latino/a Heritage Month, the Oregon Multicultural Archives presents “The Braceros Collection” a photographic exhibit documenting the Bracero Program in Oregon.

In 1942 the United States government signed a labor agreement with Mexico that allowed its male citizens to work as farm laborers throughout the U.S. It was known as the Braceros Program. All 102 photos of The Braceros in Oregon Photograph Collection are available online: http://oregondigital.org/sets/braceros/

The exhibit text panels are available online via a Flickr Set and  as a bonus, be sure to check out another blog post documenting the exhibit installation process.

Exhibit Information:

Dates: September 12 – October 26
Location: OSU Valley Library, 5th Floor, 8:30am – 5pm
Exhibit Curation: Natalia Fernandez, Oregon Multicultural Librarian
Exhibit Design: Christy Turner, OSU Libraries Special Collections and Archives Research Center Student Worker

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OMA Intern ~ Hannah Mahoney

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Natalia Fernandez

OSU Front Page News, OSU Website

Our very own Hannah Mahoney is currently featured as part of the OSU Spolight blog! Hannah was the OMA’s fabulous intern this past Spring Term – she processed the St. Philip the Deacon Records and assisted in organizing a Parish History Day for the community. And, she of course wrote all about her internship on the OMA blog, tag St. Philip the Deacon 

We are very excited to report that Hannah will be returning to the OMA this Fall Term as a student worker and will continue to blog about her experiences!

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The Oregon Tribal Archives Institute ~ Days 3-5

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Natalia Fernandez

Day 3, August 22 ~ Digitization Day

Session Facilitator Karen Estlund

  Session Facilitator Kira Homo

Our University of Oregon colleagues, Karen Estlund and Kira Homo, joined us for our digitization day – they facilitated numerous sessions including:

  • Digitization, Best Practices
  • Sound Recordings, Best Practices (with Nathan Georgitis as a facilitator via webcast)
  • Digital Asset Management Systems & Metadata
  • Born Digital Records

We concluded the day with Emily Afanador and Riki Saltman of the Oregon Folklife Network joining us to discuss the OFN’s projects.

Day 4, August 23 ~ Our Day at Grand Ronde

The Education Building at Grand Ronde

Our fourth day of the Institute was another site visit, this time to Grand Ronde. The day began with a continuation of Day 3; we started off with Kira and Karen joining us for a session on Digitial Preservation and Exemplary Digitization Projects, including the Oregon Digital Newspapers Project.

Session Facilitators Kira and Karen – More Digitization Information

Other sessions throughout the day included:

  • Reference and Access
  • Records Retention Schedules
  • Researching Elsewhere for Tribal History

We concluded with a discussion about the recently proposed Northwest Archivists’ Native American Archives Roundtable.

Grand Ronde Library

We ended our day at Grand Ronde’s Spirit Mountain Casino with Dr. George Wasson as our guest speaker.

Day 5, August 24 ~ Last Day!

As part of our last day (a half day), we started off with MaryKay Dahlgreen from the State Library who spoke with us about LSTA grant funds.

MaryKay Dahlgreen, State Librarian

Our last few sessions included:

  • Outreach and Social Media
  • Model Programs for gatherings specifically the Convening Culture Keepers program in Wisconsin
  • Grant Writing

The final session of the week was an Institute Reflection in which the attendees and facilitators discussed overall impressions of the Institute and thoughts on plans for the future in terms of gatherings and trainings.

Wrap Up and Plans for the Future

The Institute may have ended but we hope it is just the beginning of many future gatherings. Stay tuned for more information!

Session Recordings Coming Soon!

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The Oregon Tribal Archives Institute ~ Day 2

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Natalia Fernandez

Our Morning Sessions at Siletz

Day 2, August 21 ~ Our Morning at Siletz

The second day of TAI was all about the physical aspects of archives planning are care; both on the building level and item level.

We began our day with a trip to Siletz that included 2 sessions and a tour ~

Facilities Planning

Panel Session with David Lewis, Robert Kentta, and Kim Mueller

Tour of the Siletz Facilities

Robert Kentta with archival materials

Disaster Planning

Larry Landis giving a lecture regarding the creation of disaster plans

Day 2, August 21 ~ Our Afternoon at Benton County Historical Society (BCHS)

BCHS Building

We began the afternoon with a tour of the fabulous BCHS facilities:

Irene Zenev, BCHS Executive Director

We continued with the afternoon session of Collections Maintenance and Care

Larry Landis, “Preservation Overview” lecture

To conclude the day, we broke up into small groups to get hands on, item level care tips via 4 Preservation Stations

Elizabeth Nielsen, A/V Station

Larry Landis, Photo Station

Mary Gallagher, Textiles Station

Trevor Sandgathe, Paper Station

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The Oregon Tribal Archives Institute Has Begun!

Posted on August 21, 2012 by Natalia Fernandez

  TAI Tote Bags

Goals of the OR TAI ~

  • Networking ~ this is a gathering of tribal archivists, records managers, culture keepers with all nine federally recognized tribes of Oregon represented. This is a wonderful opportunity to meet, share knowledge, and build relationships.
  • Professional Development ~ we are all here to learn of course.
  • Celebration ~ archives are essential to a community’s identity and we are all here because we love the archival profession!

Opening Dinner, August 19th

On Sunday night the attendees arrived, checked-in to the residence hall, and went to dinner! We started the week off yesterday evening with an intimate dinner in the CH2M Johnson Lounge. We had several special guests in attendance including Allison Davis-White Eyes, Intercultural Student Services and her husband, along with Faye Chadwell and Shan Sutton, OSU Libraries.

Our keynote speaker was Jennifer O’Neal of the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of the American Indian who spoke about her journey as a tribal archivist.

David Lewis, Larry Landis, and Jennifer O’Neal 

Dinner Attendees

 

Institute Attendees and Faye Chadwell, OSU University Librarian (on right) 

Day 1, August 20th

Our first day began with an orientation and introduction session and then we continued on with the three sessions for the day:

Grant Funding Opportunities

Larry Landis, Session Facilitator

Archives 101 and Collections Management Systems

Jennifer O’Neal, Session Facilitator

To take a little break in the afternoon, we stopped by the 5th Floor Reading Room…

                                    5th Floor Reading Room, OSU SCARC

Manuscripts Galore with Anne Bahde

 

And just as a final, fun note…

TAI Pins!

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The OMA at SAA 2012

Posted on August 16, 2012 by Natalia Fernandez

Last week the OMA traveled south to San Diego to attend the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting!

There were a variety of sessions that pertained to the OMA including presentations regarding Native American Archives, participatory archives, donor relations, and collaborating with traditionally underrepresented communities to make their histories more visible.

Be sure to check out the Annual Meeting Program (PDF) for a full list of all the sessions

Sessions the OMA attended include:

Native American Archives Roundtable (NAAR)

109 Listening In to Conversations Across Borders, Native American Archives

 203 To the Community and Beyond: Engaging Users to Interact with Participatory Archives

303 Things They Never Taught You in Grad School: Donor Relations

409 Asian and Pacific Islanders (API) Creating Diverse and Collaborative Community Archival Methods

506 Removing Barriers and Creating Bridges: Archives, Development, and Advocacy

604 A Bilingual History: Promoting Spanish Language Collections to Tell the History of the American West and Mexico

707 Crossing Borders: Barriers to Documenting the Underdocumented

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You may have noticed that we haven’t posted in while and that’s because we have been busy planning for the Oregon Tribal Archives Institute that starts this Sunday. We are very excited and will be sure to post all about it!

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Japanese American Oral History Collection – Added Transcripts

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Natalia Fernandez

Oral History Collection Website

The Japanese-American Association of Lane Co., OR, Oral History Collection is now complete!

The interviews that had yet to be transcribed are now researcher ready:

Chiyo and Perry Mori 

David Toyama

Edward Miyakawa

Ken Nagao

Yoko McClain

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By the way, it’s the OMA blog’s 1 year anniversary – we’re so excited to continue sharing OMA projects with all of you!

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St. Philip the Deacon Episcopal Parish Records

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Natalia Fernandez

St. Philips collection and Finding Guide

The St. Philip the Deacon Episcopal Parish Records have been processed! Over the course of the 2 1/2 month internship, the collection that was originally an assortment of records in several large bins, is now arranged and described (to see the ‘before” pictures, check out the very first blog post from a few months ago).

Collection Description:

The St. Philip the Deacon Episcopal Parish collection spans from the years 1941-2012. It consists primarily of administrative records of the Vestry, Bishop’s Advisory Committee, and the Annual Meeting, as well as correspondence, publications, newspaper clippings, and audiovisual material. Other materials focus on church organizations and activities such as Episcopalian Church Women, The Richard Moffat Memorial Concert,  and a refugee family from Ethiopia. The collection also includes documents pertaining to Father Lee Owen Stone. The audiovisual material is a mix of photographs and film.

The records are organized into 10 series:

Administrative Records (1971-2008)
Organizations and Activities (1975-2009)
Ceremonies (1956-2012)
Father Lee Owen Stone (1955-1983) inclusive (1972-1983) bulk
History, 1916-1989 (1989)
Publications (1976-2001)
General Correspondence (1979-2011)
Refugee Family (1983-1984)
Audiovisual (1941-2007) inclusive (1960-2007) bulk
Church Ledgers (1954-1999)

Next Steps:

The agreement between St. Philips and the OMA is to return the physical collection to the church, however, we hope to digitize the collection materials in order to make the records accessible to the public. This process will take several months, but rest assured we will be sure to post about it!

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