Oregon State Library was extensively renovated in the 1990s. Oregon State Library The State Library of Oregon in Salem, is the library for the U.S. state of Oregon. The mission of the State Library of Oregon is to provide leadership and resources to continue growing vibrant library services for Oregonians with print disabilities, the Legislature and state government, and all Oregonians through local libraries. The Territorial Library was first housed in the Territorial Capitol Building that burned in 1855 with most of the library collection lost to the fire. The Oregon State Library was established as the Oregon Library Commission in 1905. The
Oregon Capital Bureau Oregon Capital Bureau The Oregon Capital Bureau is a joint effort of several family-owned news publishers to improve news coverage of the government of the U.S. state of Oregon. The bureau was launched in 2014 by the Pamplin Media Group, which owns 25 newspapers in the Portland Metropolitan Area and Central Oregon, and the EO Media Group, which owns 11 newspapers in Eastern Oregon and on the Oregon Coast. In 2015 the bureau launched the newsletter "Oregon Capital Insider". One of the leading advocates of establishing the bureau was Steve Forrester, president of the EO Media Group, and then publisher