2nd Edition

Curating Oral Histories From Interview to Archive

By Nancy MacKay Copyright 2016
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

For the past ten years, Nancy MacKay’s Curating Oral Histories (2006) has been the one-stop shop for librarians, curators, program administrators, and project managers who are involved in turning an oral history interview into a primary research document, available for use in a repository. In this new and greatly expanded edition, MacKay uses the life cycle model to map out an expanded concept of... Read more

Foreword Preface to the Second Edition 1. Curating Oral Histories in the 21st Century 2. Getting Started 3. Collecting Oral Histories 4. Archives Management 5. Ethical Considerations 6. Oral History and the Law 7. Understanding Technology 8. Transcribing … and More 9. Cataloging 10. Backlogs and Other Backroom Secrets 11. Preservation 12. Curating for the User 13. Opportunities of the 21st Century Appendix A: Designing a Cataloging Template Using Dublin Core Appendix B: Pathways to Access Appendix C: Resources Appendix D: Forms Notes Glossary Further Reading Index About the Author

Biography

Nancy MacKay

"Nancy MacKay has rewritten and expanded her 2006 work, Curating Oral Histories, to reflect and address the tremendous technological and social changes that have affected the field of oral history over the last decade or more."

Lee Berry, Oral History Review