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This is an email sent via the SHCG List. If you reply to this message, your message will be sent to all the people on the list, not just the author of this message. --------------- Hi Jenny, We've been doing some oral history for a project on the Black Country and although we've done all the leg work we will hand the recordings over to the relevant local archives at the end of the project rather than accessioning them here. That required us to talk to the archives before we started to make sure that we had everything they would need to be able to accession the recordings and had everything in the right format, but that was an easy process and means they'll be more accessible to the public researching the local history. Good luck! Claire Claire Whitbread Collections Development Officer, Education & Enterprise Tel. Office: 01902 552046 E-mail: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Wolverhampton City Council From: Social History Curators Group email list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jenny Brown Sent: 23 May 2014 11:52 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Oral history collections - do you catalogue them as objects, history files or part of library? This is an email sent via the SHCG List. If you reply to this message, your message will be sent to all the people on the list, not just the author of this message. ------------------------------- Hello, I've been asked to look into current best practice for oral history collections, specifically about how best to catalogue them. I've looked at the Oral history society and BL pages, but thought I'd try a quick vox-pop: * How do you catalogue oral histories? Are they digital objects (if so, what location is on your database?!!)? Are they media attached to objects? Are they part of history files or a library? * Or are they an archive best dealt with by archivists?! * Do you approach this collaboratively with other local libraries and archives? * How do you back up digital recordings and provide access to surrogates? * How have you dealt with older recordings without written copyright permissions? Sorry to ask the stupid questions, but it's really the nitty-gritty documentation/"is this an object" questions that we want to talk about and there's less about this online... Yours in hope, Jenny Jenny Brown Curator (Science and Industry) Museums and Galleries Education, Culture and Sport Aberdeen Maritime Museum Shiprow Aberdeen AB11 5BY E-mail: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Direct Dial: (01224) 337719 or (01224) 523650 Direct Fax: (01224) 213066 Visit www.aagm.co.uk<http://www.aagm.co.uk/> to search Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums Collections. 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