Libraries as Community Research Centers

About This Grant

Information about Oregon 's recent past (1970 to the present) and culture is overlooked and deemed unimportant. This is particularly true for minority and non-mainstream groups, as few efforts have reached out to record their history. Oregon needs an authoritative encyclopedia to document the history of these under-represented people and communities. The Oregon Council of Teachers of English (OCTE) is a partner of The Oregon Encyclopedia (OE), a statewide effort to create an on-line compendium of authoritative information on Oregon history and culture.  Through a series of community meetings led by OE staff and hosted by public, academic, and school libraries, the Libraries as Community Research Centers project is committed to focusing on the active recruitment and participation of under-represented populations in the researching, writing and documenting of Oregon history.