OCEANIA: AUSTRALIA, CAMDEN VOICES
Jo Oliver, local studies librarian at Camden council library reports on the Camden Voices Oral History Project which has recorded oral histories of people within the Camden community to be archived and accessible as part of the Camden Council Library collection.
‘Camden Voices is a social history project focusing on individuals who have grown up or worked in the area. The project focuses on individuals of varying ages and cultural backgrounds. The interviews are intentionally informal and do not attempt to be a definitive history of the area or particular subjects. Rather, they take the form of personal stories and memories of people’s connections with the community.
‘Camden Council Library Service received a Library Council of New South Wales Library Development Grant in 2009 to design and develop an independent website to provide access to the spoken history of the Camden Local Government Area and promote this resource to a new generation of users.
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‘I attended a training course run by the Oral History Association of Australia (OHAA) and the State Library of New South Wales in oral history interviewing and recording. Volunteer interviewers were then sought from the community and I trained eighteen people in interviewing and recording over two workshops. Thirty interviews were recorded during 2009-2010.
‘The download and mastering of the interviews was outsourced to an expert in audio production and website design. He developed the Camden Voices Online website to contain extracts of the thirty recorded oral histories and images of interviewees and their environment. The website was launched in September 2010:
http://www.library.camden.nsw.gov.au/camdenvoices/
‘Interviewees received audio CD copy of their interviews and the audio versions are now housed in the library’s local studies and lending collections. A volunteer is currently transcribing each interview in full; copies of these are sent to interviewees and will also be housed in the local studies collection. PDF copies of the transcriptions will also be included on the website.
‘Camden Council Library Service continues to support other oral history projects in the community by providing advice and loaning recording equipment. These groups will be invited to include extracts of their digital oral history recordings on the Camden Voices website and include copies of recordings and transcripts in the library collection.’
* For more information on the project contact: Jo Oliver, Local Studies Librarian, and Camden Council Library Service at: jo.oliver@camden.nsw.gov.au
Source: ORAL HISTORY, Spring 2012, p. 30-31
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