Diverse Personnel in Libraries
Diversity
Identity
Interviewees
Interviewing
Life History
Memory
Mentoring
Oral Historians: Tasks and Roles
Oral History
Oral History: Definitions
Shared Authority
Spectrum Initiative
Storytelling
Trauma
Validity
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- “It's precisely when we want to give up on collaboration that
we most need to return to dialogue, try to listen, and open our own thinking
to new strategies.” i
- “Collaborative oral history—sometimes called “reciprocal
ethnography—involves the process of engaging our interviewees in
the analysis of the interviews we generate and/or the creation of any
products drawn from those interviews.” ii
- “Collaborative work is personally and intellectually demanding,
requiring an ability—even the courage—to deal with people
and situations that can be difficult; a certain tolerance for ambiguity
and uncertainty about how a project will work out; a willingness to take
risks, not follow established protocols, and make decisions based on the
logic of the work itself.” iii
- “The recorded conversations of oral history … are joint
activities, organized and informed by the historical perspectives of both
participants. …” iv
i Rouverol, Alicia J., “Collaborative Oral History in a Correctional
Setting: Promise and Pitfalls,” The Oral History Review 30 (1) Winter/Spring
2003, 82.
ii Rouverol, Alicia J., “Collaborative Oral History in a Correctional
Setting: Promise and Pitfalls,” The Oral History Review 30 (1) Winter/Spring
2003, 61.
iii Shopes, Linda, “Commentary: Sharing Authority,” The Oral
History Review 30 (1) (Winter/Spring 2003), 106.
iv Grele, Ronald J., “Movement Without Aim: Methodological and Theoretical
Problems in Oral History,” In Grele, Ronald J., Envelopes of Sound:
The Art of Oral History 2nd ed. (Chicago: Precedent Publishing, 1985),
135.
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