Recording Oral History A Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences [Hardcover]

Since the appearance of the first edition in 1994, Recording Oral History has been a benchmark resource for practitioners, researchers, students, and repositories holding recorded oral interviews. Appearing now in its third editionthe second edition was in 2006this is the premier practical guide for conducting, using, and making available to others oral history interviews. Yow arranges her guide in 11 topical chapters, leading readers through the stages of an oral history project from design and development through implementation and analysis to preservation and presentation of the completed interviews. The author supports each chapter with a focused annotated bibliography of pertinent additional sources for the topics covered. Exceptionally useful are individual chapters that focus on three familiar reasons for launching oral history projects: community studies, biographies, and family research. Notwithstanding the value of this information, Yows ultimate achievements are the chapters that provide clear, concise examinations of the complex legal and ethical issues associated with oral history. This third edition belongs in every academic library, any library that supports humanities and social science research, and public libraries that serve constituents pursuing online degrees. Summing Up: Essential. All public and academic levels/libraries.This volume builds on the material in earlier editions, so the reader benefits from Yows research, reflections, and experience through the years, including her thoughts about how her perspective has changed. . . .This work will serve Yows intended audience well. Her conversational style is sprinkled with anecdotes from her own and her colleagues experience, giving the reader a valuable learning experience as well as a fun read. Fortunate college- level students will be assigned this book as a text not only in oral history courses but in any courses involving in-depth interviewing. Newcomers to oral history or qualitativel“P