Curating oral histories : from interview to archive / Nancy MacKay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacKay, Nancy, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Libraries--Special collections--Oral history.

Libraries.

Sound archives.

Oral history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (157 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The interview is completed, the recorder packed away, and you've captured the narrator's voice for posterity. The bulk of your oral history is finished? or is it? Nancy MacKay, archivist and oral historian, addresses the crucial issue often overlooked by researchers: How do you ensure that the interview you so carefully recorded will be preserved and available in the future? MacKay goes carefully through the various steps that take place after the interview? transcribing, cataloging, preserving, archiving, and making your study accessible to others. Written in a practical, instructive style, MacKay guides readers, step by step, to make the oral history? archive ready?, offers planning strategies, and provides links to the most current information in this rapidly evolving field. This book will be of interest to oral historians, librarians, archivists and others who conduct oral history and maintain oral history materials. See more at http://www.nancymackay.net/curating/

Contents:

Setting the stage

Archives administration

Legal & ethical issues

Recording technology

Transcribing

Cataloging

Preservation

Oral histories on the internet

Challenges of the 21st century.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-145) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-351-57030-7

1-351-57031-5

1-315-09517-3

1-59874-724-X

9781315095172

OCLC:

711747395