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What's Great About Oregon Libraries?
- Oregon public libraries rank #2 in circulation per capita in the United States (2004).
- Oregon public libraries rank #2 in resource sharing.
- Oregon public libraries rank #8 in local operating income per capita.
- About half of all public library facilities are new or expanded since 1990.
- All but one of the library facilites in the Oregon University System are new or expanded since 1990.
- Nearly all Oregon academic libraries participate in the Summit union catalog http://summit.orbiscascade.org with 27 million holdings of acadimic libraries in Oregon and Washington.
- Oregon school libraries have collaborated to build the Oregon School Library Information System http://oslis.org to bring electronic library resources to all of Oregon's students.
What's Great About the Oregon State Library?
- The Oregon State Library celebrated its centennial in 2005.
- The Oregon State Library is the only state that devotes all of its state grants in aid to improving library services to children.
- The Oregon State Library had one of the first Web-based information portals http://library.state.or.us for state agency customers and still has one of the best.
- The Oregon State Library occupies the historic State Library building, built in 1939 (and still spacious and functional), right across the street from the State Capitol.
- The Oregon State Library licenses periodical and newspaper databases for all public, academic, and school libraries in the state.
- The Oregon State Library funds L-net http://www.oregonlibraries.net, Oregon's statewide collaborative virtual reference service.
- The Oregon State Library is partnering with four other states and OverDrive, Inc. to be one of the first state libraries to offer digital audio books to our talking book users.
- The Oregon State Library is one of the first state libraries to develop a digital repository for all state documents whether printed or "born digital" http://oregon.gov/osl/gres/repos/index.shtml.
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