Nancy MacKay 
Curating Oral Histories [PDF ebook] 
From Interview to Archive

The interview is completed, the recorder packed away, and you’ve captured the narrator’s voice for posterity. The bulk of your oral history is finished or is it? Nancy Mac Kay, archivist and oral historian, addresses the crucial issue often overlooked by researchers: How do you ensure that the interview you so carefully recorded will be preserved and available in the future? Mac Kay goes carefully through the various steps that take place after the interview transcribing, cataloging, preserving, archiving, and making your study accessible to others. Written in a practical, instructive style, Mac Kay guides readers, step by step, to make the oral historyarchive ready offers planning strategies, and provides links to the most current information in this rapidly evolving field. This book will be of interest to oral historians, librarians, archivists and others who conduct oral history and maintain oral history materials. See more at http://www.nancymackay.net/curating/