MAC News

Innovating Oral History

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Abstract

Urbana-Champaign is home to many unique oral history projects, including the Evolving Archives (EVA) Initiative, the Lincoln Hall Storyography Project, eBlack C-U, and WILLTV’s World War II Stories, to name a few. On September 12 and 13, Organizing Committee cochairs Anke Voss and Bethany Anderson invite MAC members to the 2014 Fall Symposium, “Oral History, Archives, and Innovation,” on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) campus, to immerse themselves in the community’s rich tradition of capturing the history of the “living source.” Given that technologies are constantly changing, archives and archivists must rethink how they collect, curate, and disseminate oral histories. For two days, Doug Boyd, director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky, will discuss strategies addressing oral histories in the digital age, sharing his expertise on collecting metadata, transcription, format obsolescence, and preserving oral histories for future generations.

How to Cite:

Midwest Archives Conference, (2014) “Innovating Oral History”, MAC Newsletter 41(4), 5.