Publications in Oregon from city and county governments, tribal governments, non-profits, organizations, voter's pamphlets, the People's Power League, scrip, and more.
The Oregon Documents Depository Program supports government transparency and civic education by ensuring consistent and coordinated permanent public access to information published by Oregon state government.
Over the past 30 years the Southern Oregon University Library has actively collected hundreds of federal and state government publications relating to the Southern Oregon Klamath-Siskiyou bioregion. Along with those publications we receive through the U.S. Government Printing Office and the Oregon State Library, we have made special efforts to collect “fugitive” and “gray” documents, those materials not normally distributed through these channels.
The SOU Insect Museum Bumblebee Collection showcases digital images and field collection data of preserved bumblebee (Bombus sp.) specimens that were collected by students, researchers, and amateur collectors from diverse sites in North America, primarily the Klamath-Siskiyou ecoregion of Southern Oregon and Northern California.
The SOU Insect Museum Butterfly Collection showcases digital images and field collection data of preserved butterflies (Lepidoptera sp.) specimens that were collected by students, researchers, and amateur collectors primarily from the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, Oregon, and other sites in the Klamath-Siskiyou ecoregion of Southern Oregon and Northern California.
Includes photographs of the Kalmiopsis Wilderness area and environs taken during retired ranger Rene Casteran’s career (1986-2008) as a wilderness ranger on the Siskiyou National Forest (later Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest) in Oregon and California.
Images selected from the Historical Records Collection of Rogue River National Forest trace 100 years of forest history, economy, landscapes, and recreation from its founding as Crater National Forest in 1908.
Roughly 2.8 million of the museum’s digital image and data collections have been made free to access, download, transform, and use for any purpose without further permission from the Smithsonian.
