(1 Dec 2020) The National Library of Australia has the world’s biggest oral history collection conducted at the height of the HIV and Aids epidemic in Australia. ABS has a full interview with Dr Shirleene Robinson (Senior curator of oral history at the National Library of Australia) about the collection and its historical background…
(5 October 2016) This high-level checklist was created by Bertram Lyons for a program coordinated by the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts on collecting and preserving oral history materials in libraries, museums, and archives. This checklist does not consider the act of recording oral histories as a collector or interviewer; it documents basic principles…
(30 January 2015) In Nepal, traditional music castes used to travel from village to village, carrying news and preserving history through storytelling and song. Today, that tradition is disappearing, but READ is working to keep Nepal’s history and stories alive. Five READ Centers brought together local grandparents, children, and theatre groups to transcribe, illustrate, publish,…