By Nancy MacKay, Mary Kay Quinlan, Barbara W Sommer
March 15, 2013
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...
By Mary Kay Quinlan, Nancy MacKay, Barbara W Sommer
March 15, 2013
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...
By Mary Kay Quinlan, Nancy MacKay, Barbara W Sommer
March 15, 2013
The first book of the five-volume Community Oral History Toolkit sets the stage for an oral history project by placing community projects into a larger context of related fields and laying a sound theoretical foundation. It introduces the field of oral history to newcomers, with discussions of the ...
By Barbara W Sommer, Nancy MacKay, Mary Kay Quinlan
March 15, 2013
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 ...
By Barbara W Sommer, Nancy MacKay, Mary Kay Quinlan
March 15, 2013
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...