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and when those places are lost we need a safe and secure repository for their holdings. another need the research library used to provide.

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museums are a good thing and fortunately Portland has many including a children's museum and a science museum, both focuse on our youth and their education. Our art museum also has many programs for children.

Since the Historican museum's expansion the shows have often had nothing to do with Oregon so please tell me how that is more important than the research library which has no equal, no substitute in the state let alone the city.

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I agree entirely with your last point, Donna. Today I finalized my arrangements to begin deposting my oral history interviews at NYU--yes, you read that right. I am sending my interviews with Oregonians 3000 miles east to enrich their resources because I don't trust Oregon to preserve them or make them available.

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I am one of many who has used the research libary over the years for many purposes but I am also one of many who have trusted the Historical Society with  precious and irreplaceable donations. What will become of our treasures?

When I placed over one hundred hours of oral history tapes and several boxes of research material: historical correspondence and papers with OHS, I trusted the Society would process them and care for them as these things deserved and to make them available to other researchers and the public as appropriate.

I now feel betrayed.

What will become of them, my orphaned donations? Will the Society return them to me? Will they be lost from improper oversight? Will they deteriorate from lack of proper care and storage? Will researchers ever be able to access them or even know they exist?

We need people in charge who value and appreciate the treasures in their care; the current management has not shown me that they qualify.

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