OLA Conference 2018

Community-based oral history projects bring together diverse voices and reflect a community’s rich cultural heritage. These oral histories are Oregon’s thousand points of life that illuminate the state’s heritage and the photographs, video, and artifacts that accompany the oral histories illustrate that heritage.

This hands-on workshop will teach practical methods to collect, describe, publish and promote an oral history project with adult or teens. Using hands on learning exercises, participants will rotate through each of the three tables at 30 minute intervals facilitated by librarians and staff from Southern Oregon University, Pacific University, Oregon State University and the University of Portland. Methods and materials will be shared but the focus of the workshop will be on participants and their communities. Participants can expect to work through the planning, collection focus, and cost considerations of an oral history project. They will customize an intellectual property release, conduct oral histories, develop appropriate metadata, and design an outreach and communications plan for their project.