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- Title
Counting On Oral History.
- Authors
Forsyth, Ellen
- Abstract
This article discusses two recent projects the author has worked on with public libraries in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. The first project is an audit of public library local studies collections, which is a detailed survey of NSW public library local studies collections, services, programs and staffing. The second project is to assist public libraries with undertaking new oral history recordings. The oral history project focuses on contemporary collecting, so that recent information is included in local studies collections in public libraries. Representative contemporary collecting may assist to bring together stories which otherwise have not been collected, and which could help document diverse viewpoints of communities, hopefully assisting in deepening community understanding.
- Subjects
NEW South Wales; PUBLIC libraries; ORAL history; EDUCATIONAL programs; INFORMATION retrieval
- Publication
Words & Silences / Palabras y Silencios, 2022, Vol 11, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1405-6410
- Publication type
Article