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ACS Showcase:
Oral History Project Sounds Off!


From left to right: Dr. Kaye Briegel, Dr. David Bradley,
Dr. Sherna Berger Gluck and Nancy Rayner.

Want to bring history to life in your classroom? Offer your students valuable primary sources for their projects - in history, linguistics, literature, gerontology... you name it. The possibilities are endless. Or even use oral histories for your own scholarly enterprises?

NOW, thanks to the creative work of Academic Computing Services, working with Professors Sherna Berger Gluck and Kaye Briegel,

 

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CSULB features the first Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive of its kind in the country. Currently, you can access 300 hours of original oral history recordings with more to be added. And with the powerful search capabilities that have been developed, you can search for material across all 300 hours.

The Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive of California State University, Long Beach site provides access to the full audio recordings of oral histories that have been deposited in Special Collections of the University Library - enabling you, the user, to hear the voice, pitch, and rhythm of the narrations as well as the emotions these convey.


to hear an
Audio Sample


You will hear the actual spoken words of oral history narrators, rather than seeing a written version of them in the form of a transcript.

The online collection presently includes women's history, labor history and Long Beach area history. Topics include Terminal Island Japanese community, the development of Signal Hill, the impact and effects of the petroleum industry in the Long Beach area, the growth and impact of the unions in the Los Angeles basin, and the suffrage movement. Some of the interviews date back to 1972 and include interviews with narrators born as early as the 1860s.


Navigation of the site is both hierarchical “card catalog” by subject then narrator to specific interviews or “free form” across collection searches by your chosen topic. You can listen to any segment (2 to 6 minutes of a specific conversation topic) or an entire interview.

The Real Audio player is required for listening to the audio segments. This site incorporates alternative layouts for viewing the pages, one designed for the latest web browsers, another that will work better with older browsers, and one for use with audio screenreaders.

This project was supported through the Academic Computing Services' Software Development Assistance Grants Program. This program provides assistance in software development to faculty. ACS provides consulting services in such areas as: page layout, digital imaging, streaming media, computer programming and authoring, web development, database support for web pages, and video-audio production.

More can be found at the Software Development Assistance Grants Program website.


Check out the material
featured here by clicking
the image above to visit
the site at:

www.csulb.edu/voaha.