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Book Managing a Community Oral History Project

Download or read book Managing a Community Oral History Project written by Barbara W Sommer and published by Left Coast Press. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third book in the five-volume Community Oral History Toolkit takes the planning steps outlined in Volume 2 and puts them into action. It provides the practical details for turning your plans into reality and establishes the basis for guiding your project through the interviews to a successful conclusion. Project managers are given concrete, useful advise on how to manage people, money, technology, publicity, and administrative tasks from the beginning to the end of the project. Volume 3 outlines details for developing the necessary forms to properly administer a community oral history project (sample forms provided). The authors advise how to recruit volunteers and interviewees and provide helpful tips for conducting thorough interview and transcription training sessions and how to make arrangements for the life and safety of the project one the interviews are complete.

Book Planning a Community Oral History Project

Download or read book Planning a Community Oral History Project written by Barbara W Sommer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book in the five-volume Community Oral History Toolkit walks you through all the planning steps to travel from an idea to a completed collection of oral history interviews. Informed by an extensive survey of oral historians from across the country, this guide will get you started on firm ground so you don’t get mired in unforeseen problems in the middle of your project. Designed especially for project administrators, it identifies participants and responsibilities that need to be covered, and details planning needs for everything from budgeting to technology, and from legal issues to ethics. Planning a Community Oral History Project sets the stage for the implementation steps outlined in Volume 3, Managing a Community Oral History Project.

Book Managing a Community Oral History Project

Download or read book Managing a Community Oral History Project written by Barbara W Sommer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third book in the five-volume Community Oral History Toolkit takes the planning steps outlined in Volume 2 and puts them into action. It provides the practical details for turning your plans into reality and establishes the basis for guiding your project through the interviews to a successful conclusion. Project managers are given concrete, useful advise on how to manage people, money, technology, publicity, and administrative tasks from the beginning to the end of the project. Volume 3 outlines details for developing the necessary forms to properly administer a community oral history project (sample forms provided). The authors advise how to recruit volunteers and interviewees and provide helpful tips for conducting thorough interview and transcription training sessions and how to make arrangements for the life and safety of the project one the interviews are complete.

Book Introduction to Community Oral History

Download or read book Introduction to Community Oral History written by Mary Kay Quinlan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of the five-volume Community Oral History Toolkit introduces the field of oral history, sets the stage for an oral history project and offers a theoretical basis for the practical steps outlined in the remaining volumes.

Book After the Interview in Community Oral History

Download or read book After the Interview in Community Oral History written by Nancy MacKay and published by Left Coast Press. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community projects often falter after the interviews are completed. This final book of the five-volume Community Oral History Toolkit explains the importance of processing and archiving oral histories and takes the reader through all the steps required for good archiving and for concluding the oral history project so that it is preserved and accessible for future generations. The authors give special attention to record-keeping systems and repositories, and provide several examples from actual projects to ground the information in practical terms. Charts, checklists, and sample forms also help the reader apply concepts to practice. Volume 5 finishes with examples of creative ways community projects have used oral histories, such as performances, exhibitions, celebrations, websites, and more, in order to promote history and engage the community.

Book After the Interview in Community Oral History

Download or read book After the Interview in Community Oral History written by Nancy MacKay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final book of the five-volume Community Oral History Toolkit explains the importance of processing and archiving oral histories, takes the reader through all the steps required for good archiving and concluding the project, and gives examples of creative ways community projects have used oral histories.

Book Story Bridges

    Book Details:
  • Author : Angela Zusman
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-09-17
  • ISBN : 1315419556
  • Pages : 125 pages

Download or read book Story Bridges written by Angela Zusman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angela Zusman offers an informative guidebook with step-by-step directions for planning and implementing intergenerational oral history projects, using youth to interview elders. An expert on these programs, Zusman uses her experiences and those of other oral historians to show how community projects are organized, youthful historians located and trained, interviews conducted, and the project archived for future community needs. Included are a variety of sample documents and case studies designed to ease the process for the uninitiated.

Book Curating Oral Histories  Second Edition

Download or read book Curating Oral Histories Second Edition written by Nancy MacKay and published by Left Coast Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatly expanded second edition of Curating Oral Histories offers the same practical guidance as the first edition in the same engaging style, but with enhanced content and context. Updates on technology, legal and ethical issues, oral history on the Internet, cataloging, copyright, and backlogs reflect current thinking in the field.

Book Interviewing in Community Oral History

Download or read book Interviewing in Community Oral History written by Mary Kay Quinlan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with instructive case studies, practical examples, and expert advice, the fourth book in the five-volume Community Oral History Toolkit guides the interviewer through all the steps from the interview preparation through the follow-up.

Book Practicing Oral History to Connect University to Community

Download or read book Practicing Oral History to Connect University to Community written by Fawn-Amber Montoya and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practicing Oral History to Connect University to Community illustrates best practices for using oral histories to foster a closer relationship between institutions of higher learning and the communities in which they are located. Using case studies, the book describes how to plan and execute an oral history project that can help break down walls and bring together universities and their surrounding communities. It offers advice on how to locate funding sources, disseminate information about the results of a project, ensure the long-term preservation of the oral histories collected, and incorporate oral history into the classroom. Bringing together "town and gown," the book demonstrates how different communities can work together to discover new research opportunities and methods for preserving history. Supported by examples, sample forms, and online resources, the book is an important resource both for oral historians and those working to improve relationships between university institutions and their neighboring communities.

Book Interviewing in Community Oral History

Download or read book Interviewing in Community Oral History written by Mary Kay Quinlan and published by Left Coast Press. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interview is the anchor of an oral history project. The fourth book in the five-volume Community Oral History Toolkit guides the interviewer through all the steps from interview preparation through follow-up. It includes guidance on selecting interviewees, training interviewers, using recording equipment, and ethical issues concerning the interviewer-interviewee relationship. Packed with instructive case studies, Volume 4 offers concrete practical examples and advice for issues such as pre-interview research, developing interview questions and points for guiding discussion, ideal interview settings and conditions, strategies for stimulating interviewees’ memories, acceptable communication techniques and behavior throughout the interview process, and rounding out interview documentation with supplementary materials and contextual information.

Book Practicing Oral History in Historical Organizations

Download or read book Practicing Oral History in Historical Organizations written by Barbara W Sommer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been half a century since the last book that addressed how historical societies can utilize oral history. In this brief, practical guide, internationally known oral historian Barbara W. Sommer applies the best practices of contemporary oral historians to the projects that historical organizations of all sizes and sorts might develop. The book -covers project personnel options, funding options, legal and ethical issues, interviewing techniques, and cataloging guidelines;-identifies helpful steps for historical societies when developing and doing oral history projects;-includes a dozen model case studies;-provides additional resources, templates, forms, and bibliography for the reader.

Book Using Oral History in Community History Projects

Download or read book Using Oral History in Community History Projects written by Laurie Mercier and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Oral History Manual

    Book Details:
  • Author : Barbara W. Sommer
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2018-07-05
  • ISBN : 1442270802
  • Pages : 155 pages

Download or read book The Oral History Manual written by Barbara W. Sommer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oral History Manualis designed to help anyone interested in doing oral history research to think like an oral historian. Recognizing that oral history is a research methodology, the authors define oral history and then discuss the methodology in the context of the oral history life cycle – the guiding steps that take a practitioner from idea through access/use. They examine how to articulate the purpose of an interview, determine legal and ethical parameters, identify narrators and interviewers, choose equipment, develop budgets and record-keeping systems, prepare for and record interviews, care for interview materials, and use the interview information. In this third edition, in addition to new information on methodology, memory, technology, and legal options incorporated into each chapter, a completely new chapter provides guidelines on how to analyze interview content for effective use of oral history interview information. The Oral History Manualprovides an updated and expanded road map and a solid introduction to oral history for all oral history practitioners, from students to community and public historians.

Book Doing Oral History

    Book Details:
  • Author : Donald A. Ritchie
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2014-09-19
  • ISBN : 0199329346
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Doing Oral History written by Donald A. Ritchie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doing Oral History is considered the premier guidebook to oral history, used by professional oral historians, public historians, archivists, and genealogists as a core text in college courses and throughout the public history community. Over the past decades, the development of digital audio and video recording technology has continued to alter the practice of oral history, making it even easier to produce quality recordings and to disseminate them on the Internet. This basic manual offers detailed advice on setting up an oral history project, conducting interviews, making video recordings, preserving oral history collections in archives and libraries, and teaching and presenting oral history. Using the existing Q&A format, the third edition asks new questions and augments previous answers with new material, particularly in these areas: 1. Technology: As before, the book avoids recommending specific equipment, but weighs the merits of the types of technology available for audio and video recording, transcription, preservation, and dissemination. Information about web sites is expanded, and more discussion is provided about how other oral history projects have posted their interviews online. 2. Teaching: The new edition addresses the use of oral history in online teaching. It also expands the discussion of Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) with the latest information about compliance issues. 3. Presentation: Once interviews have been conducted, there are many opportunities for creative presentation. There is much new material available on innovative forms of presentation developed over the last decade, including interpretive dance and other public performances. 4. Legal considerations: The recent Boston College case, in which the courts have ruled that Irish police should have access to sealed oral history transcripts, has re-focused attention on the problems of protecting donor restrictions. The new edition offers case studies from the past decade. 5. Theory and Memory: As a beginner's manual, Doing Oral History has not dealt extensively with theoretical issues, on the grounds that these emerge best from practice. But the third edition includes the latest thinking about memory and provides a sample of some of the theoretical issues surrounding oral sources. It will include examples of increased studies into catastrophe and trauma, and the special considerations these have generated for interviewers. 6. Internationalism: Perhaps the biggest development in the past decade has been the spreading of oral history around the world, facilitated in part by the International Oral History Association. New oral history projects have developed in areas that have undergone social and political upheavals, where the traditional archives reflect the old regimes, particularly in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The third edition includes many more references to non-U.S. projects that will still be relevant to an American audience. These changes make the third edition of Doing Oral History an even more useful tool for beginners, teachers, archivists, and all those oral history managers who have inherited older collections that must be converted to the latest technology.