GUIDE TO ESSENTIAL DOCUMENTATION FORMATS/CHECKLISTS FOR ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEWS


The Oral History Handbook by Beth Robertson  Fifth edition, third impression 2009 published by the Oral History Association of Australia SA Inc, makes available a wealth of practical advice and is recommended as a primary handbook for all oral historians.  

With technological advances in the digital environment offering many new opportunities and challenges for oral historians, OHAA NSW is endeavouring to provide both training and other resources to inform and encourage best practice standards.


PRACTISING AS AN ORAL HISTORIAN IN THE DIGITAL AGE : INTERVIEW SUMMARY CHECKLIST

This checklist aims to help you in arranging placement of your interviews in any library or other public archive.  By documenting all the relevant information relating to each interview you will be assisting in preserving your sound recording in long term storage/archives and helping future researchers to access the interview for a variety of purposes.    

To download a template of the Interview Summary Checklist for use with your own interviews  Click here

To download an annotated template of the Interview Summary Checklist   Click here