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IV. AFTER THE INTERVIEW
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Ensure long-term preservation of recordings by entrusting them to a local library or archives, where other researchers can access them as primary resources for years to come.
Preserve the recordings.
o Label them carefully.
o Duplicate originals and store them
safely.
o Use the copies for further
processing.
o Keep a file for permission forms,
interview notes, photographs,
research notes, etc.
Why preserve student recordings?o The student’s interview may be the only preserved
recording with a particular interviewee on a particular
topic of interest to historians now or in the future.
o Teachers may use the recordings with later classes to
provide a primary source for student learning on a
selected curriculum topic.
o To motivate students to obtain high-quality recordings
and interviews.
o To allow students to do the complete oral history
process, just like career oral historians.
o To provide students the satisfaction of creating
lasting historical documents.
o To honor the interviewees who share their stories with
students.
o To give the larger community as well as future scholars
access to the stories gathered and lessons learned from
Indexing the recording by time and subject makes information on recordings more accessible and allows the researcher to provide correct spellings of names and terms used in the interview for future users or transcribers.
o Index soon after the interview.
o For tapes, use a stopwatch rather than the
counter on the recorder for greater accuracy.
o Digital playback software usually provides a
time log.
o Index by obvious breaks in the topic or by time
(every five minutes or less).
o The more details in the index, the more useful
it will be.
Sample of a time-subject log:
Name: Arthur Louis Santos
Date of interview: January 15, 2008
Location: Santos home, 2222 West Drive, Waco, Texas
Interviewer: John Sutcliffe
Project: Waco History Coalition: Sandtown
Recording no. 0778; compact disc
H/M/S Topic
00:00:03 Introduction
00:01:05 Description: between Brazos River and South 1st, below Clay St.
to city dump; shotgun houses mixed with frame structures;
See, for example, student assessments of what they learned about the Great Depression from an oral history project in Richfield, Utah, at Sevier County Oral History Project.