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Announcing North Olympic Heritage, a new digital collection!

Announcing North Olympic Heritage, a new digital collection!

The Washington Rural Heritage initiative is pleased to announce a new digital collection: North Olympic Heritage. A project of the Port Angeles Main Library of the North Olympic Library System, this collection includes hundreds of photographs of pioneers, Native Americans, trains, ships, logging scenes, and views of early towns and sites in Clallam and Jefferson counties digitized from the expansive Bert Kellogg Photograph Collection. In 1970, local resident Bert Kellogg donated his collection of over 5,000 photos and negatives depicting life…

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2013-2014 Washington Rural Heritage grants awarded

2013-2014 Washington Rural Heritage grants awarded

From the desk of Evan Robb Congratulations to the latest group of Washington libraries and museums receiving 2013-2014 LSTA grant awards through the Washington Rural Heritage initiative! Ellensburg Public Library. Orcas Island Public Library, in partnership with the Orcas Island Historical Museum. Port Angeles Public Library (North Olympic Library System). Sedro-Woolley Public Library, in partnership with the Clear Lake Community Historical Association. Sunnyside Library (Yakima Valley Libraries), in partnership with the Sunnyside Historical Society. Walla Walla County Rural Library District….

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New Digital Collection: Lincoln County Heritage

New Digital Collection: Lincoln County Heritage

We are proud to announce Lincoln County Heritage — a small, yet very cool new digital collection from Washington Rural Heritage — as well as a brand new website for the Davenport Public Library!   The Davenport Library’s new web presence, built on a Drupal content management platform by our own Evelyn Lindberg, was developed as part of the Washington ReadyWeb Project (WaRP). Davenport joins the Reardan Memorial Library, the Ritzville Public Library, and the Denny Ashby Library in Pomeroy…

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Better Digital Collections, Comment by Comment

Better Digital Collections, Comment by Comment

From the Desk of Evan Robb Throughout 2012 we learned a great deal about how the unique resources in our Washington Rural Heritage collections are impacting end users–and we’re learning directly from the users themselves.  Since enabling the public commenting feature on our digital library software in January, 2012 we’ve received over 100 comments on items in more than 25 digital collections from throughout the state.  Here are a few standouts: A user named “JRW” commented on this photo depicting…

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Goat carts! WRH stumbles across a photographic genre

Goat carts! WRH stumbles across a photographic genre

Sometimes a seemingly insignificant coincidence can turn into a meaningful connection… or at least send you down a rabbit hole of late-night Googling. A few weeks ago, I was visiting the Davenport, Washington public library for a couple days with Washington Rural Heritage (WRH) Project Manager Evan Robb. We were there helping Davenport librarian Katy Pike develop a small digital collection through a partnership with the Lincoln County Historical Museum. After two productive days scanning photographs and documents we packed…

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New Digital Collection: Nooksack Valley Heritage

New Digital Collection: Nooksack Valley Heritage

From the desk of Evan Robb A new digital collection from the Whatcom County Library System is providing access to historical materials first gathered more than a decade ago.  From 1995 to 1999, a collaborative, citizen-led effort in Whatcom County sought to document the unique primary sources found in family collections throughout the Nooksack River Valley.  Known as the Whatcom Memories Photograph and Interview Project, and co-sponsored by the Lynden Pioneer Museum and the Whatcom Museum of History and Art,…

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New digital resources from Asotin County Heritage

New digital resources from Asotin County Heritage

Asotin County Library has recently added over 100 newly digitized photographs to the Asotin County Heritage collection with the assistance of a grant from the State Library’s Washington Rural Heritage initiative! Asotin County Library director Jennifer Ashby and cataloger/metadata specialist Marjean Riggers partnered with local resident Eva Lynn Thomson this year to digitize a portion of Thomson’s family collection, documenting the history of the Wilson Banner Ranch and the Silcott area along the Snake River just west of Clarkston, Washington….

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News from Washington Rural Heritage

News from Washington Rural Heritage

It has already been a busy year for Washington Rural Heritage. In addition to launching a newly-designed website this spring (with upgrades to our server and content management system), we have improved our long-term digital preservation strategy to better protect our collections for future generations. We have also recently re-opened our metadata to outside harvesters (using best practices established by the Open Archives Initiative, or OAI), and we are currently in the process of contributing over 19,000 item-level records to OCLC’s…

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Odessa Heritage Collection presents….

Odessa Heritage Collection presents….

The Odessa Public Library and the Odessa Historisches Museum have continued their partnership this year with a Washington Rural Heritage sub-grant to digitize a wealth of cultural heritage materials, including some cool multimedia. This slideshow interprets the story of the settling of the Odessa area by Germans from Russia, who came to eastern Washington starting in the late 19th century, as well as the difficult yet tenacious history of the Odessa Historical Society and Historisches Museum.   With an interest…

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New Digital Collection: Asotin County Heritage

New Digital Collection: Asotin County Heritage

We are very pleased to announce the Asotin County Library and the Asotin County Museum have become the latest contributing institutions to the Washington Rural Hertiage initiative! With nearly 200 items to date, the Asotin County Heritage collection presents images, maps, records, and artifacts from Clarkston, Asotin, Anatone, Washington, and the surrounding area including Lewiston, Idaho. The collection was made possible by a Washington Rural Heritage grant from the Washington State Library, funded by the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA)…

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