Cooperative Governors' Papers Project (Implementation Grant)

About This Grant

A consortium of three public and private higher education libraries (Willamette University, Portland State University, and Western Oregon University) will identify, solicit, process, and preserve the non-official and personal papers of three of the Oregon governors since World War II. Information about the collections will be made available online and selected portions of the collections will be digitized for access and viewing on the Web. The scope of the proposal is all materials other than those collected by the Oregon State Archives in Salem. The first part of the project will endeavor to identify the locations and ownership of gubernatorial papers and to create a listing of whose papers are where. A second goal of the project is the cross training among the three institutions on the systematic processing of political papers. This will be followed by a small proof-of-concept project for processing and digitizing of select portions of the Straub collection to determine time and resources needed for a larger initiative that would encompass non-official gubernatorial papers across institutions.