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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>Matthew Cowan has been the Archivist for
Moving Images and Photography at the Oregon Historical Society since 2013.
Please download and read his latest article, “Wild Wild Archive: Analog
Videotape of the Rajneesh Movement at the Oregon Historical Society,” here: <span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">

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</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>Whether you were fascinated by the
Netflix <span>documentary</span> Wild Wild Country,
were around when the Rajneeshees took over the town of Antelope, Oregon, or
are just an Oregon librarian who wants to learn everything there is to know about
our crazy state, this article is for you. <span> </span>Feel free to share it far and wide across this
wild country.<span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">

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</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>From Matthew’s article, “The role of
OHS in this project was simultaneously one of <span>promoter</span>,
conservator, and researcher. For a number of reasons, film and video collections
are often the <span>type</span> most difficult to
provide public access: they are tricky to incorporate into <span>book</span> or manuscript-based library catalogs;
their size makes them difficult to make available online<span>; and</span> they require huge amounts of staff time in order to flesh out
the descriptive metadata. By promoting the collection and the story to the filmmakers,
OHS was able to find funding to digitize the entirety of the collection,
something that would have been unlikely without external support. Moreover,
while the physical tapes will continue to be stored in <span>temperature</span> and <span>humidity-controlled</span>
vaults at OHS, after 30+ years, the 300 hours of digitized footage is now
accessible for use by future researchers and members of the public.
Furthermore, the success of </span><i><span>Wild</span></i><span> </span><i><span>Wild Country </span></i><span>has
led to an increase in visibility for the collection as a whole and, in turn,
for the institution. It was a multi-year process, one in which OHS played a
relatively small role, but the end result has successfully shined a spotlight
on one of the largest and most diverse media collections on the West Coast.”</span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="2">Best wishes,</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="2">Charles Wood</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="2">OLA Communications</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="2"></font><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span><span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">





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