[OPLINLIST] Ohio Memory News and Featured Scrapbooks

[Angela O'Neal]

Ohio Memory News
We are pleased to report that Ohio Memory was selected as an Exemplary =
Program for the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) 2003 Program =
Report.  You can view the press release at: =
http://www.ohiomemory.org/om/exemplary.html  The Phase Two Final Report =
is also available online at: http://www.ohiomemory.org/om/report7.html  =
2,315 new records were added during Phase Two, and the website received =
more than six million hits. =20

Featured Scrapbooks
January new additions, Black History Month and Valentine's Day are =
February's featured scrapbooks, online at: =
http://www.ohiomemory.org/exhibits.html

Items in the Black History Month scrapbook include Toni Morrison's =
yearbook photograph from 1945, photographs of Ohio's African American =
regiment in World War I, and paintings by African American artist Robert =
Duncanson. =20

The Valentine's Day scrapbook features items relating to love and =
romance in Ohio's past.  A valentine sent by future president Benjamin =
Harrison, the Wolfe Antle Wedding Quilt, and Humphrey Bogart's and =
Lauren Bacall's Wedding Photographs are a few examples.=20

New Additions
In January, materials from the following institutions were added to Ohio =
Memory:

Center for Archival Collections--Bowling Green State University=20
Champaign County Historical Society
Cleveland Public Library=20
Columbus Zoo Library =20
Defiance Public Library=20
Elyria Public Library=20
Lorain Public Library System=20
Lynchburg Historical Society=20
Miami University Archives
Notre Dame College=20
Ohio Historical Society
Ohio University
Ohio Wesleyan University Historical Collection=20
Preble County District Library
Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County
University of Cincinnati German-Americana Collection
Willoughby-Eastlake Public Library - Willoughby

Angela O'Neal
Ohio Memory Project Manager
Ohio Historical Society
1982 Velma Ave.=20
Columbus, OH 43211
(614) 297-2576
www.ohiomemory.org=20