Libraries as Community Research Centers

About This Grant

Much of Oregon's community knowledge, history, and culture is undocumented. This is particularly true for ethnic minorities, women, and rural populations. This project will add to an authoritative publication, The Oregon Encyclopedia, which documents the history of these under-represented people. Through a series of workshops and meetings led by trained historians and hosted by public, academic, and school libraries, the Libraries as Community Research Centers project is committed to providing an opportunity for Oregon students to contribute entries to the Encyclopedia. By working with students, tribal members, teachers and librarians, public, academic and tribal libraries will be strengthened as centers for research. The meetings will also generate 120 Encyclopedia entries that will be posted to the OE web site (http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/).