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History
archive may receive Corbis Collection
By Ako Sakurai
On-line Forty-Niner
The Cal State Long
Beach oral and aural (audible) history archive Web site is
in the process of signing an agreement with the Corbis Collection
for the donation of 17 pictures, which are worth about $3,400.
The agreement is yet to be signed, but Sherna Gluck, director
of the oral history program, said she has already downloaded
the images. However, Gluck said the agreement still has to
pass through university channels.
The Corbis Collection is the heart of Corbis, a pioneer company
in digital content delivery, founded in 1989 by Microsoft
Chairman Bill Gates. The collection is the largest accumulation
of digital images in the world.
Established in 1978 within the history department, the oral
history program has been teaching and training history majors
and other students how to use materials that focus on largely
unwritten sources as well as ways to conduct interviews to
collect data for oral history projects.
The oral history program started contacting the Corbis Collection
last October, Gluck said.
Donated images include some interviewed narrators of the site,
scenery of a Japanese fishing village of Terminal Island and
its canneries, which existed during the early 1900s.
"This is where Corbis comes in," Gluck said. "Visuals
help attract K-12 students."
Pictures will be used to enhance the visual aspects of the
oral and aural history archive Web site, making the oral history
interview recordings on the site more appealing to the visitors
with real voices, pitch and rhythm of narrators rather than
just reading the transcribed portions of the interviews.
Originally, the collection was only available in the library.
However, to create a greater access of those recordings to
people outside of campus and even to worldwide audiences,
the program started to publish those recordings along with
some images on the Web site since last spring.
"The idea was that archive online would be accessible
to the world," Gluck said.
The narrative documents range from arts in Southern California,
Long Beach area history, Mexican-American/Chicano to Southeast
Asian community, labor history, and women's history. Currently,
the prototype Web site has some narrative recordings of Long
Beach's history and women's history.
The oral and aural history archive is part of the oral history
program, holding mostly deposited works from outside researchers
and some works by students and faculty at CSULB.
"The collection is pretty large and has more than 1,000
hours of recordings," said Gluck.
The newly designed site will be up sometime in May with another
200 hours of interview recordings available. An additional
100 hours of recordings will be available by the end of August,
Gluck said.
The collection owns more than 65 million images that are taken
by professionals or previously owned by museums and personal
collectors, and 2.1 million of them are online. Some sources
of the images and fine art include the National Gallery-London,
the State Hermitage Museum- St. Petersburg, the Bettman Collection
and Peter Turnley.
The prototype Web site of Oral/Aural history archive can be
accessed at csulb.edu/voaha.
Some of the classes that teach oral history include History
402, oral history methods, History 4980, directed studies
in oral history, and History 301, methodology of history,
which is required of all history majors.
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