Friday Open Forum
I have been asked to be a guest on the Musser Public Library (Muscatine) Libraries Alive program this Friday, so I won't be able to meet at 9 for our Friday Forum. It is a live streaming cable TV channel and I'll be talking about the State Library. You can check it out here: https://musserpubliclibrary.org/library-channel-5-streaming/
Because of that program, I'd like to push our Open Forum back to 10:00, just for this week. Hope to see you all on Friday, April 21 at 10!
Sorry if you missed meeting with Helen last month-she has prepared this info, in case you are still interested in participating.
Oral History Project
The State Library is launching an exciting Oral History project, Earth’s Bounty in Iowa: Then and Now. Members of the public will be able to tell their own stories about growing up on a farm in Iowa. Their recorded narratives will focus on the firsthand experiences of ordinary Iowans. The interviews will be posted on The Iowa Heritage Digital Collection website, along with verbatim transcripts of the interviews.
If you would like to listen to two sample recordings, and to read the verbatim transcripts, please click on this link:
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Here are some commonalities for each interview:
- Library staff at participating libraries will schedule the interviews and provide a staff member to ask the questions and record the interview.
- Participants will be asked to sign a written release, allowing the State Library to record and put their recorded words on the IHDC web site, and to allow researchers and the public to use the content of their interviews.
- Interviews will also be transcribed through a commercial service (Rev.com), and posted on the IHDC web site.
- Each interview will be recorded on the same kind of portable recording device (Zoom H5); devices will be sent from the State Library and returned to the State Library via IA Shares.
- Each mailing will include a packet of information, instructions, and forms.
- State Library staff will transfer each interview to the IHDC web site.
- Interviewees will be asked the same set of eight questions (whether currently farming or no longer living on a farm).
- Each interview will last up to 45 minutes.
- We encourage interviewees to send us their photographs so that we can include them on the IHDC website (alongside their interviews).
- Library staff and the public will be invited to fill out a short written evaluation of the process.
Helen Dagley will serve as the staff contact for the project at the State Library. If you have questions or would like to book an interview, please contact her by phone or email: 515-281-3063 or helen.dagley@iowa.gov
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