The North Coast Times Eagle is a new addition to the Historic Oregon Newspapers database. Issues from this title cover 1979-2007. It was published in Wheeler, Astoria, and Cannon Beach, and has the spunky, DIY feel of a community newsletter with a global conscience. North Coast Times Eagle has numerous articles about the local fishing industry, the threat of nuclear arms, investigations into violence against women, editorials about racism at home and abroad, as well as poetry, local art, and cartoons.

The Oregon State Library has been a long-standing supporter of the Oregon Digital Newspaper Program through its LSTA grant funding to Oregon libraries to fund newspaper digitization. Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funding is allocated from the federal government to states to support libraries and other cultural heritage institutions. In 2022-2023, we were glad to partner with seven organizations with LSTA grants to digitize newspapers from around the state:

• Cottage Grove Sentinel (1924-1929), sponsored by the Cottage Grove Museum
• Gresham Outlook (1911-1928), sponsored by the Multnomah County Library
• Hermiston Herald (1915-1945), sponsored by the Hermiston Public Library
• Hood River Glacier (1924-1928), sponsored by the Hood River Public Library
• Illinois Valley News (1937-1952), sponsored by the Josephine Community Library District
• Opportunity News (1965-1968), sponsored by Oregon Historical Society
• Toveri (1916-1921), sponsored by the Astoria Public Library

Issues from 2015-2016 of the Baker County Record-Courier newspapers are now available in Historic Oregon Newspapers. These are relatively recent issues compared to the the myriad historical newspapers we provide in the database, but it’s a great example of how ODNP digitization projects can focus on whatever content someone wants to make available from any time period. In this case, the director of the Baker County Library, Perry Stokes, had 77 print issues of the Record-Courier in his library, and he wanted to make sure they could be accessible and preserved for future research. He sent the issues to us in Eugene, where we digitized and processed them for access in Historic Oregon Newspapers.

Our collection of newspapers from the coastal community of Coquille continues to grow, thanks to the efforts of our stalwart champion, Bert Dunn. The latest additions are issues of the Coquille Valley Herald from 1936-1946. Small-town newspapers are full of interesting regional history, but it’s also fascinating to see local responses to global events, such as the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the United States entry into World War II in December 1941.

We’re pleased to announce the addition of several new historical titles from Scio:

• Scio News (1870-1871)
• Scio Press (1890)
• Scio Weekly Press (1890-1897)
• The Santiam News (1897-1917)
• Intermountain Tribune and Linn County Agriculturalist
• Scio Tribune (1919-1925)
• The Scio tribune and Santiam news, consolidated (1917-1919)
• The Scio Tribune (1915-1917)

The Scio Public Library sponsored this digitization project, which included microfilm and digital photography of original newsprint.

UO Libraries recently contributed six Oregon prison newspapers to American Prison Newspapers, a new open-access collection available through Reveal Digital, a project of JSTOR.

American Prisons, 1800-2020: Voices from the Inside provides free online access to over 450 newspapers published from U.S. prisons.

UO Libraries provided the following titles, which were digitized from the original paper copies held in Special Collections & University Archives:

• Detour (24 issues, 1960-1965); Oregon State Correctional Institution
• Inside-Out (1 issue, 1972); unknown facility
• Lakota Oyate-ki (11 issues, 1973-1988); Lakota Indian Club, Oregon State Penitentiary
• Lend a Hand (52 issues, 1908-1922); Oregon State Penitentiary
• Shadows  (159 issues, 1935-1967); Oregon State Penitentiary
• The Walled-Street Journal (2 issues, 1969-1971); Oregon State Penitentiary

Reveal Digital develops open access primary source collections from underrepresented 20^th century voices of dissent. Reveal Digital partners with libraries, museums, historical societies, and individual collections to curate and source materials, which they digitize and host on the JSTOR website.