...Eric C. Weig; MLE Slone Purpose This paper aims to examine how an open-source information management system was developed to manage a collection of more than 10,000 oral history interviews at the University of Kentucky Libraries’ Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History. Design/methodology...

...Krista White; Caryn Radick Purpose This paper aims to explore two separate legacy oral history digitization projects at one institution and how the project teams approached the different issues and challenges these projects presented. Design/methodology/approach The approach compares two case...

...Kristopher Turner Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine how the University of Wisconsin Law School Library sought to create easily searchable oral histories by partnering with the University of Kentucky and the University of Wisconsin Oral History Program. Through this partnership...

...Anthony Cocciolo Purpose – The purpose of this study is to answer the questions: Can students discern the difference between oral histories digitized at archival quality (96 kHz/24-bit) versus CD-quality (44.1 kHz/16-bit)? and How important do they believe this difference is? Digitization...

...Kimberly Weatherford Stevens; Bethany Latham Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the processes and procedures utilized by Jacksonville State University's Houston Cole Library to digitize an oral history collection and provide access to it through the Library's catalog, web presence...

...Caroline Daniels Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a practical example of a process repositories may follow in making oral history interviews available online. Design/methodology/approach The paper examines the decisions that must be made in the course of making analog audio...

...Trevor James Bond Through the use of OCLC/DiMeMa’s CONTENTdm software and a RealSystems Server 8, this article outlines the process of converting two collections of African‐American oral histories recorded on cassette tapes to digital streaming files at the Washington State University Libraries...