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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,
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.
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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 matieral featured herre by
clicking
the image above to visit the site at: www.csulb.edu/voaha. |
