Enriching Oral Histories as Scholarly Resource: Challenges and Opportunities

Presenters: Tamara Livingston, Christian Kelly, Kate Matheny

Are your oral history collections languishing in boxes of cassettes on the shelf? Are you missing opportunities to engage with your community and attract researchers? Join us as we help you rediscover the value of your oral history collections. Participants will: 

• Learn about the Oral History Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS) application (an open-source tool) as a practical and cost-effective tool easily adapted by smaller institutions  

• Discover how indexing oral histories with the OHMS can create meaningful opportunities for student and community engagement 

• Gain strategies for raising the profile of oral history collections that may be inaccessible due to format or lack of descriptive metadata.