[Libs-Or] ALA's short documentary on the O'Brien Memorial Library in Blue River

[Libraries of Eastern Oregon]

Hello colleagues,

some of you may remember I had the pleasure of escorting then ALA President
Emily Drabinski through Oregon late last spring, visiting the Eugene Public
Library and several small and/or rural libraries, including the OSU
Cascades campus library, the Grant County Library in John Day and the Cyber
Mill in Prairie City, and the volunteer-run O'Brien Memorial Library in
Blue River, which was destroyed in the Holiday Farm Fire in 2020. At the
stop at the O'Brien Memorial Library, we were also joined by volunteers and
Board members for filming as part of a documentary film on libraries, "This
Place is Our Place," that Emily was coordinating through grant funds she
had been awarded.

I am so excited to share the finished short film highlighting the wonderful
story of how the O'Brien Memorial Library came to be — that story itself is
wonderful, as Mrs. O'Brien first started running the library on the front
porch of her house! — and how the library is a visible lighthouse, as Board
Chair Connie Richardson calls it, of regrowth and return in the Blue River
community. I hope you will take the opportunity to watch and share!

https://www.ala.org/obrien-memorial-library-red-fire-blue-river

You can see photos of the grand opening of the new library at their
website, https://www.obrienlibrary.org/, donate to the library at
https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/AF9BYHGLLJSPN, and donate to the ALA
Disaster Relief Fund to help  libraries who have been impacted by natural
disasters at
https://ec.ala.org/donation/IRO-0866-GENALDhttps://ec.ala.org/donation/IRO-0866-GENALD
<https://ec.ala.org/donation/IRO-0866-GENALD>.

Stephanie Chase
Executive Director, Libraries of Eastern Oregon
PO Box 233, Baker City, OR 97814
541/362.4258
she/her/hers
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