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Writing Migration: Points of Departure and Arrival in History and Reason
Get PDFIntroduction to vol. 11: Writing Migration: Points of Departure and Arrival in History and Reaso
Inside Look: Digitizing a Historic Card Index
Get PDFOregon Index Online (https://digital.osl.state.or.us/islandora/object/osl:or_index) is a resource for discovering information about the news, events, and people who shaped Oregon. It builds on the decades of work that went into creating the physical Oregon Index. This article reviews the methods library staff took to digitize and process nearly 800,000 cards to make the Oregon Index available online.
Note: A new version of this article was posted on Nov. 6, 2020, to include the authors' updated State Library of Oregon email addresses
Center for Volga German Studies at Concordia University - Portland
Get PDFThe Center for Volga German Studies (CVGS) was founded in 2004 at Concordia University by then Dean of Libraries and Volga German Scholar, Brent Mai, with assistance from descendants of Volga German immigrants. The Center is unique from other organizations and groups that focus on Volga Germans — it was founded as an academic entity with a focus on scholarly pursuits. The Center supports the preservation and education of the heritage, history, and accomplishments of the Volga Germans. In 2009, the Center moved into a large dedicated space in the newly built George R. White Library and Learning Cen ter and was able to make all materials previously in storage available to the public. Holdings were cataloged in the library ILS and many images are stored electronically in the library’s digital repository; the CU Commons https://digitalcommons.csp.edu/cup_cvgs/. The CVGS actively collects the history, folklore, songs, literature, objects of art and craft, and information on linguistics as well as worship and governance. The Center is a clearinghouse for locating original manuscripts and also sponsors workshops and conferences. The CVGS contains a collection of over 2,000 books and documents as well as archival materials. In addition, the Center maintains genealogy resource materials to assist with family history research. A libguide was created to help users navigate the resources: https://libguides.cu-portland.edu/volga
The Sumpter Valley Railroad Restoration Archives Connecting To Community
Get PDFSumpter Valley Railroad Restoration Inc. (SVRR) was formed as a non-profit corporation owned by its members in 1971. The purpose for the formation of SVRR as stated in its articles of incorporation are as follows: “(1) To acquire, collect, restore, preserve and maintain for historical and educational purposes a portion of the Sumpter Valley Railway Company right of way, railroad equipment, machinery and track, as a historical site situate in Baker and Grant Counties, Oregon,” and (2) To stimulate interest in the discovery, procurement and preservation of whatever may relate to the history of communities and the mining, logging railroading and sawmilling industries in Baker and Grant Counties, Oregon.
¡Bienvenidos! Cuentos en el Parque: Taking Library and Other Community Services on Location
Get PDFDuring the middle of the summer in Sherwood, Oregon, if you are walking through the grounds of one of the largest parks in town, you will see tables set up for lunch for a crowd, other tables with free books and community information, bubbles filling the air, and about 100 kids and their grown-ups enjoying a camp-like experience. You will see families of all demographics enjoying stories and songs in Spanish and English. You will see happy faces lined up for lunch, and a riotous enthusiasm that only kids exude during a fun craft or outdoor game activity. You might wonder what is going on. Is it a school gathering? Is it a city event? Is it a community fair? The answer is all of the above. It’s Bilingual Storytime in the Park/Hora de cuentos en el parque, an annual storytime session that runs once a week for six weeks during the summer, now in its fourth year. Bilingual Storytime in the Park is an outreach program run by Sherwood Public Library, Sherwood School District’s Sherwood Helping All Reach Excellence (S.H.A.R.E.) Center, and Sherwood YMCA. Community partners also include Helping Hands, MudPuddles Toys and Books, Sherwood Center for the Arts, Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge, and the City of Sherwood, all of which come together to reach Spanish-speaking families. This article will describe how our library partnered with other city organizations to create a successful outreach program for families and how you can do the same
Volume 26 Issue 2 Introduction | From the Guest Editor
Get PDFThis issue of the OLA Quarterly features articles written by State Library staff highlighting the programs, services, and history of the State Library. The State Library of Oregon was established as the Oregon Library Commission in 1905 and renamed as the Oregon State Library in 1913. Today, the State Library of Oregon has three distinct roles:
The Talking Book and Braille Library serves Oregonians with print disabilities by providing Braille, audio- books, descriptive videos, and magazines through the mail and digital download. This is a free service to eligible Oregonians, with over 5,000 active users and an average of approximately 30,000 items circulated every month. The Talking Book and Braille Library is the regional library in Oregon for the Library of Congress’ National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS) network.
The Library Support and Development Services Division provides consultation services, professional de- velopment, statewide library services, and state and federal grant administration to libraries across the state. The division administers state-funded Ready to Read grants to public libraries in Oregon to support sum- mer reading and early literacy programs, and administers federal LSTA grant funding as competitive grants and for statewide library services including the Answerland online reference service, the Oregon School Library Information System (OSLIS), and the Statewide Database Licensing Program.
The Government Information and Library Services Division provides library services to state employees including research assistance, professional development, and instruction. Through the embedded librarian program, each state agency is as- signed a librarian to provide specialized assistance and resources to support state agency staff in their work. The division preserves state agency publications and makes them accessible to state employees and the public through the Oregon Digital Collections website, and reference assistance is provided to the public in utilizing State Library collections and resources.
Articles featuring the work of each of these divisions are included in this issue.
Note: A new version of this article was posted on Nov. 6, 2020, to include the author's updated State Library of Oregon email address
A Staged Migration to Europe: Özdamar's Perikizi and Transgenerational Trauma
Get PDFJocelyn Aksin’s research is based in Turkish-German studies with a focus on transnational memory. She has published on the role of Turkish newspapers in Die Brücke vom Goldenen Horn and Bitteres Wasser by Emine Sevgi Özdamar, and received her Ph. D. from Washington University in St. Louis in 2014 with a dissertation on representations of memory in Turkish-German novels by Zafer Şenocak, Aras Ören, Feridun Zaimoğlu, and Emine Sevgi Özdamar. Jocelyn began studying Turkish as a graduate student in the German program at Washington University, and was awarded a fellowship from the American Research Institute in Turkey for advanced Turkish language study at Boğaziçi University (Bosphorus University). After spending nearly eight years in Istanbul where she completed her dissertation and worked as a language teacher, Jocelyn relocated to Greensboro, N.C. and joined the German Program at UNCG as a lecturer in 2018
Brown Eyed Boy: Narrating Internalized Oppression and Misogynoir in Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s Everything I Don’t Remember
Get PDFThe rise of anti-immigrant sentiment and right-wing extremism in Sweden in the wake of growing migration has affected Sweden’s global reputation as a model progressive welfare state that prioritizes human rights and generously extends citizenship, welfare, and labor rights to migrants and asylum seekers. In Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s Allt jag inte minns [Everything I Don’t Remember] (2015), xenophobia, Islamophobia, and racialized heteronormativity appear in the unlikely form of Vandad, a hypermasculine Muslim immigrant who has secretly fallen in love with another Swedish Arab man. This study involves a narratological analysis of how internalized racism inspires the novel’s narrator of color to produce figurative narrative acts of internal colonialism—that is, violent narrative acts, made possible by the effects of racism, against other non-white characters in the story. The essay additionally explores how the objectification of non-white women’s bodies and acts of misogynoir, the anti-Black misogyny that Black women experience, by queer men of color in the text operate as secondhand technologies of oppression manufactured by the political discourse of the extreme right. The essay concludes with a critique of the far right’s exploitation of collective cultural memory to mass-produce white nationalism in the guise of tradition and the implications this has for non-white Swedes and migrants in Sweden
From the Life to the Mind of the Writer in the Literary Biopic: Andrucha Waddington’s Lope and Ray Loriga’s Teresa
Get PDFLope (Andrucha Waddington 2010) and Teresa (Ray Loriga 2007) have much in common. Both biopics center on a revered literary figure of the Spanish Golden Age. However, in spite of their many commonalities, these films embody two distinct tendencies in the contemporary literary biopic genre: one more “typical,” represented by Lope, that focuses heavily on plot development and another, represented by Teresa, that aspires to visually transpose to the screen aspects that relate to the main character’s interiority. Although Teresa has features of the “typical” contemporary literary biopic, it innovates the genre significantly by moving its focus from the life to the mind of the writer. Loriga uses the language of cinematography to depict the imagery and affective qualities of the mysticism of Teresa de Ávila—the force behind her writings—, creating a film that emphasizes image and emotions over plot. Teresa thus brings a different sensitivity to the literary biopic, which deviates from more formulaic films. Centering on the author’s mind can indeed be a new path for filmmakers to innovate the biopic genre, particularly in its literary strand. Finally, these two biopics illustrate the need to expand the scholarly conversation about the contemporary literary biopic genre, as they both engage with and deviate from the formula established by Anglo-Saxon biopics.Lope (Andrucha Waddington 2010) y Teresa (Ray Loriga 2007) tienen mucho en común. Ambos biopics se centran en una figura literaria venerada de las letras españolas del Siglo de Oro. Sin embargo, a pesar de las muchas características que comparten, estas películas encarnan dos tendencias distintas en el género del biopic literario contemporáneo: una más “típica”, representada por Lope, que se centra fuertemente en el desarrollo de la trama y otra, representada por Teresa, que aspira a trasladar visualmente a la pantalla los aspectos que se relacionan con la interioridad del personaje principal. Aunque Teresa tiene rasgos del biopic literario contemporáneo “típico”, innova significativamente el género al enfocarse en la mente del escritor más que en su vida. Loriga utiliza el lenguaje de la cinematografía para trasladar a la pantalla el imaginario y las cualidades afectivas del misticismo de Teresa de Ávila—la fuerza catalizadora de sus escritos—, creando así una película que enfatiza la imagen y las emociones por encima de la trama. Teresa aporta así una sensibilidad diferente al género del biopic literario, que se desvía de la fórmula más estándar. Centrarse en la mente del autor puede ser, en efecto, una nueva pauta para innovar el género del biopic, particularmente en su vertiente literaria. Finalmente, estas dos películas ilustran la necesidad de ampliar el discurso académico sobre el género del biopic literario contemporáneo, ya que adoptan y a la vez se desvían de la fórmula establecida por los biopics anglosajones