It’s harvest season, and Northwest Digital Heritage recently reaped and baled 50,000 more records and shipped them to the Digital Public Library of America!

This metadata harvest garnered:

• More than 40,000 records from the State Library of Oregon’s Government Publications

Highlights include COVID-19 information in over 40 languages and an excellent video on hop production in Oregon.

• Baker County Library District’s Digital Archive

Highlights include landscape and mining scenes from Oregon’s Elkhorn Mountains, and Baker City’s Main Street from the 1860s through 2000s.

• Additional collections from Washington Rural Heritage, including:
  • Fort Vancouver Regional Library’s Skamania, Klickitat, and Clark-Cowlitz collections
  • San Juan Island Library District’s San Juan Island Heritage Collection
  • Mid-Columbia Library’s Benton City, Connell, and Prosser collections

• Collections from the Oregon Historical Society including photos from the Vortex I music festival in 1970 and early glass negatives of Portland

• Seattle Public Library’s Northwest Photo Collection

The institutions represented in this metadata harvest include:

• Baker County Library District
• Benton City Library (Mid-Columbia Libraries [MCL])
• Benton County Museum and Historical Society
• City of North Bonneville
• Connell Downtown Development Association
• Connell Heritage Museum
• Connell Library (MCL)
• Franklin County Graphic
• Goldendale Community Library (Fort Vancouver Regional Library District [FVRL])
• Kiona-Benton City Historical Society
• Klickitat County Historical Society, Presby Museum
• La Center Historical Museum
• Oregon Historical Society
• Prosser Library (MCL)
• Ridgefield Community Library (FVRL)
• Ridgefield Heritage Society
• San Juan Historical Museum
• San Juan Island Library District
• San Juan Island National Historic Park
• Seattle Public Library
• State Library of Oregon
• Stevenson Community Library (FVRL)
• Washington State University Extension
• Woodland Historical Museum Society

Northwest Digital Heritage (NWDH) — a Washington State Library, Oregon Heritage Commission, and State Library of Oregon partnership — leverages the Washington Rural Heritage project’s existing infrastructure and best practices and makes them available to Oregon-based libraries, museums, and cultural heritage organizations. A complete list of NWDH partner organizations can be found here.

NWDH is funded by Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The Oregon and Washington state libraries administer this funding to enhance library services throughout the region, including providing grant opportunities for libraries. Additional funding is provided through the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, Oregon Heritage Commission, and Oregon Cultural Trust.

In May 2021, NWDH became a Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) service hub, which enables local cultural institutions — including galleries, libraries, museums, research institutions, historical societies, and others in Oregon and Washington — to upload digital content onto DPLA’s national archive database.

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