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Section news and updates from our Chair, Rachel Telford. Read full article >>
Remembering Cliff Kuhn
Todd Moye, Professor of History and Director, University of North Texas Oral History Program
We are very sorry to have to share with you the news that our friend and Oral History Association (OHA) Executive Director Cliff Kuhn passed away on November 8 in Atlanta, surrounded as he usually was by loved ones. Read full article >>
Using Oral Histories to Create Campus Collaborations
By Beth Ann Koelsch, Curator of the UNC Greensboro Women Veterans Historical Project
The Betty H. Carter Women Veterans Historical Project (WVHP), part of the University Libraries at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), recognizes the contributions of women veterans with an annual November luncheon. Read full article >>
A Cowboy in Every County Oral History Project at the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program
By Sarah Milligan, Associate Professor and Head, Oklahoma Oral History Research Program, Oklahoma State University
In conjunction with the 125th anniversary of Oklahoma State University’s founding, the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program (OOHRP) is interviewing at least one alumnus in in each of Oklahoma’s 77 counties during 2015-2016, with the goal of leveraging an anniversary event to the long-term benefit of the program. Read full article >>
Recording Life in the Zone: The Panama Canal Museum Collection Oral Histories
Jessica Marcetti, Collections Coordinator, and E. Haven Hawley, Chair, Special and Area Studies Collections Department, University of Florida
The Panama Canal Museum Collection (PCMC) at the University of Florida’s George A. Smathers Libraries collects items representing life and work in the Panama Canal Zone, including photographs, documents, 3-D objects, and oral histories. Read full article >>
The New Roots/Nuevas Raíces Latino Oral History Initiative Launches Bilingual Digital Resources
By Hannah Gill, The Latino Migration Project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The growth of Latino communities in the U.S. South is one of the most significant demographic changes in the recent history of the nation. The New Roots/Nuevas Raices Oral History Initiative, established in 2007 to document this history from the perspectives of migrant newcomers, is pleased to announce the launch of a new website and digital information system in January of 2016. Read full article >>
Islandora and Oral History: Improving Access to Interviews at the NCAR Archives
Kate Legg, Archivist and Digital Collections Librarian, National Center for Atmospheric Research
At the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Archives, we are striving to meet the challenges of fulfilling our users’ expectations in the digital age, especially around access to oral history collections. Beginning in the 1980s, NCAR joined with the American Meteorological Society (AMS) to create the AMS Oral History Project. Read full article >>
Next Oral History Section Newsletter – Something New
Talya Cooper, Archive Manager, StoryCorps, and Oral History Section Steering Committee
For our next issue, we'd like to try something a little different. Instead of soliciting articles, we're looking for submissions in audio format, more of a podcast newsletter. We'd especially be interested in hearing excerpts from some of the interviews you hold in your collections or that you've recently recorded--perhaps something you've edited for an exhibit or a website but which hasn't been shared beyond your local institution. We would also welcome audio recordings describing your current projects or announcements. If you're interested in contributing, please e-mail Steering Committee member Talya Cooper at tcooper@storycorps.org.
Oral History Association CFP for Long Beach, 2016
The Oral History Association invites proposals for papers and presentations for its 50th anniversary meeting in 2016 to be held October 12-16, 2016 at the Renaissance Hotel in Long Beach, California. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2016. Read full article>>
