Archival management of oral history collections (online course)
This course is run jointly by the British Library’s oral history department and the Oral History Society and is aimed at archivists and those managing audio archive material. The course covers the practical, technical and ethical issues around the selection, collection and description of oral history and other recorded personal testimony and spoken word on multiple audio formats. It also explores opportunities that oral history-based partnerships offer archives for community engagement.
Before confirming your place the Training Administrator may contact you for further details about the audio collections you are working with.
Please note:
- There will be no refunds for cancelled places.
- Due to high demand and in order to ensure that each course has attendees with a variety of interests and backgrounds, only one person from any one institution may book to attend each course.
- There are two methods of payment. You can pay online via PayPal, debit or credit card or you can make an offline payment where an invoice will be sent to your organisation. Please select the appropriate option in the booking form.
Course Structure
This online training course is delivered over Zoom video call. Each course is run over two consecutive morning sessions, 9.30am – 1.15pm, with half hour breaks mid-morning. The programme for the course is as follows (please note this is a sample structure and may differ on the day).
Hourly Schedule
First day
- 09:30 - 09:45
- Welcome and Introductions
- 09:45 - 10:05
- A brief history of oral history and archiving
- 10:05 - 11:00
- Audio formats and digital preservation
- – Identifying what you have (cassettes, reels, DAT, digital files) – Storage (analogue and digital): short-term and long-term – Funding suggestions for digital preservation
- 11:00 - 11:30
- Break
- 11:30 - 13:00
- Oral history archiving: legal and ethical issues
- – Laws that affect oral histories (copyright, GDPR, FoI) – Ethics (informed consent, confidentiality, creative commons)
- 13:00 - 13:15
- Review of the day and Q&A
Day 2
- 09:30 - 11:00
- Recording equipment, cataloguing, workflows, documentation
- – Equipment (recorders, microphones) and new technology – Oral history arrangement, accessioning and cataloguing – Documentation that needs to be collected alongside recordings (recording agreements, summaries)
- 11:00 - 11:30
- Break
- 11:30 - 12:15
- Working with partner projects: some models for engagement (Part I)
- – Group work
- 12:15 - 12:45
- Working with partner projects: some models for engagement (Part II)
- – Models for acquiring oral history collections – Acting as archive partner for community groups/NLHF projects/academic partners – Working with vulnerable groups
- 12:45 - 13:05
- Access and outreach
- – Providing access (onsite and online) and promoting your oral history collections
- 13:05 - 13:15
- Review of the day and Q&A
Date
- 24 - 25 Nov 2022
Time
- 9:30 am - 1:15 pm
Location
- Zoom call Time zone: London, United Kingdom GB
Organizer
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Camille Johnston
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Email
Camille.Johnston@bl.uk Oral History Training Administrator
Speakers
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Charlie Morgan
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Mary Stewart
