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Practicing Oral History in Historical Organizations

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Practicing Oral History in Historical Organizations by Barbara W Sommer is a concise, practical guide designed for historical societies interested in incorporating oral history into their work. The book covers essential topics such as project personnel, funding, legal and ethical considerations, interviewing methods, and archiving protocols. It also offers a dozen model case studies alongside useful resources, templates, and a comprehensive bibliography to assist organisations of any size in creating effective oral history projects.
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Ideal for members and leaders of historical societies, archivists, oral historians, and anyone involved in heritage organisations seeking best practices for oral history projects.

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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.

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It has been half a century since the last book that addressed how historical societies can utilise 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 organisations of all sizes and sorts might develop.

The book covers project personnel options, funding options, legal and ethical issues, interviewing techniques, and cataloguing guidelines; identifies helpful steps for historical societies when developing and doing oral history projects; includes a dozen model case studies; and provides additional resources, templates, forms, and a bibliography for the reader.

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  • Practicing Oral History in Historical Organizations
    It has been half a century since the last book that addressed how historical societies can utilise 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 organisations of all sizes and sorts might develop. The book covers project personnel options, funding options,...
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    In addition to the problem of language, conducting oral histories with immigrant narrators often requires special considerations: past violence, cultural sensitivity, and lack of trust. Yet, these narrators are often witnesses to, or participants in, important historical events, or can describe otherwise-undocumented social phenomena. The first book to focus specifically on oral history practices with immigrant narrators, Practicing Oral History...
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    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 organised, youthful historians located and trained, interviews conducted, and the project archived for future community needs. Included...
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  • Practicing Oral History in Historical Organizations
    It has been half a century since the last book that addressed how historical societies can utilise 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 organisations of all sizes and sorts might develop. The book covers project personnel options, funding options,...
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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781611328639

Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 30 September 2015

Country: United States

Imprint: Left Coast Press Inc

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 453g

Pages: 213

About the Author

Barbara W. Sommer, M.A., has over twenty-five years of experience in the oral history field. She has been principal investigator and director of more than twenty major oral history projects at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska Wesleyan University, and Vermilion Community College.

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