Doing Oral History: A Practical Guide 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.
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