Discusses the legal concerns a library should be aware of in maintaining an oral history collection. Samples of contract forms for accepting donations or obtaining ownership of tapes produced for the library are included. (CHC)

Tells how oral history helps integrate journalistic techniques into standard historical research. Discusses techniques that may be used during four phases of gathering oral history: preliminary contact, preinterview preparation, the interview, and post-interview activities. (GT)

This article provides basic step-by-step guidance on how to preserve, restore, and make available for use a taped collection of oral history interviews. Maintains that recorded sound collections may last almost indefinitely if protected by proper housekeeping practices, storage conditions, maintenance procedures, and use policies. (JDH)

Discusses the rationale for establishing criteria for evaluating oral history interviews. Presents seven evaluation categories relating to oral history tapes and three categories relating to typescripts. (CK)

Discusses oral history interviews in terms of selection criteria, identification, storage conditions, and duplication. (CHC)

Noting importance of use of proper camera techniques to the end product of oral history interviews, this article covers some basic rules of visual composition. Topics covered are (1) field of view; (2) headroom and "talkspace"; (3) natural dividing lines; (4) depth and angles; (5) backgrounds; (6) camera and lens movements; (7) interview set-up;…

Discusses four types of services requested of libraries and strategies for providing them: collecting material about oral history, collecting published and semi-published oral history transcripts for research, serving as a repository for unique oral history materials, and establishing a program to create new oral histories. References are…

Defines video history, and discusses its importance and the library's role in preserving and providing access to video and oral history. Sources for additional information are listed. (CHC)

This practical booklet, intended for those who are transcribing oral interviews into manuscript form, provides transcribing and editing guidelines that are particularly pertinent to oral history interviews. The major factor involved in a transcription is its editing. Editing is defined as making the material suitable for use by researchers and the…

This paper examines oral history as one of the main types of evidence available to people who are investigating educational concerns from an historical perspective. The first part of the paper describes existing oral history collections many of which deal with subjects related to education. For example, a history professor at Columbia University…

This booklet was designed to serve as a stimulus and guide for those persons interested in collecting information and source material concerning the cultural and historical contributions of ethnic groups in Pennsylvania. The contents consist of three sections: suggestions for collecting, examples of Pennsylvania folklore, and an annotated…

Explores the moral dilemma of researchers profiting from the information of impoverished and socially deprived subjects. Reports on the responses of several researchers to this problem. (RKM)

Reports on interviews with evangelical women. Contends that oral history is a valuable means of understanding the world view of evangelicals. (RKM)

This guide contains practical suggestions for and theoretical discussions on preparing oral history transcripts for publications or public view. Although intended as a guide for nonprofessionals, it can be used by those who are conducting more serious research and are not familiar with the techniques of oral history. Because the guide deals only…

This Records and Archives Management Programme (RAMP) report provides information on the nature of oral tradition/history; the role of recorded oral history as documentation in the absence of written records, or as a supplement where written records exist; problems in recording and administering such materials; and basic considerations involved in…