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Rating  - Nifty book packed with useful information
Let me say from the outset that this is a great book. It is reasonably short, easy to read and packed with great information. The focus of the book is its title, "Curating Oral Histories." Those who are familiar with doing oral history know about getting the right recording equipment, setting up the interview and all that. What we don't know too much about is what to do with it all once it's done. What do you do with all those tapes? How do you catalog them? Perhaps the biggest issue is how to preserve the originals. At some point in time those tapes are going to deteriorate.
This book answers all the questions. I really liked the focus on cataloging and curating. This added an important dimension to the whole issue of what one does after the interviews have been done. From my own experience, I have conducted a couple of oral history interviews for my own personal research, and right now, the tapes are more or less sitting in a box. At some point I will transcribe them, but I still don't know what to do with the tapes. Should I make a backup copy? This book pretty much answers it.
Of particular note are the appendices. There are forms for a variety of purposes. The legal forms are useful for copyright releases which is very important. I really liked the collection policy form and the other practical forms for processing and organizing the oral histories. The appendices alone are worth the price of the book.
My overall impression of this book after reading it is that it is of reasonable length, easy to read, and packed with useful information. The author did a great job of explaining the meaning of certain terms used in oral history. Overall, I am quite pleased that I bought this book. It is a welcome addition to my personal library, and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in oral history. It is particularly useful to librarians who need to catalog their collections and preserve the originals for future generations.
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