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Geoff Pickle
Issue date: 11/9/07 Section: News
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The Ozarks Lesbian and Gay Archives at Missouri State will host a workshop tomorrow on how to be a successful interviewer while recording oral history.
"It's a good way to collect the history of the working class, people that didn't necessarily leave behind diaries," said David Richards, head of special collections and archives at Meyer Library and a former teacher of oral history. "It's basically trying to bring an awareness of how to do a good oral history interview."
The OLGA materials are held in the Special Collections and Archives department in the library. The workshop will be free and open to the public, but will require participants to conduct one interview on behalf of OLGA.
"They're basically putting it on because they're trying to recruit more folks to help with interviewing members of the lesbian and gay community here in Springfield and the Ozarks in general," Richards said. "They're trying to build up a group of interviewers to document that part of Ozarks culture and that little segment of the population itself. They'd like to have the participants do one interview in lieu of any kind of fee."
The workshop will cover some history, but will mostly focus on how to successfully interview in accordance with oral history standards, Richards said.
The event will be held in the Special Collections and Archives Department in Meyer Library 306 tomorrow from 10:30 a.m. to noon.
"It's a good way to collect the history of the working class, people that didn't necessarily leave behind diaries," said David Richards, head of special collections and archives at Meyer Library and a former teacher of oral history. "It's basically trying to bring an awareness of how to do a good oral history interview."
The OLGA materials are held in the Special Collections and Archives department in the library. The workshop will be free and open to the public, but will require participants to conduct one interview on behalf of OLGA.
"They're basically putting it on because they're trying to recruit more folks to help with interviewing members of the lesbian and gay community here in Springfield and the Ozarks in general," Richards said. "They're trying to build up a group of interviewers to document that part of Ozarks culture and that little segment of the population itself. They'd like to have the participants do one interview in lieu of any kind of fee."
The workshop will cover some history, but will mostly focus on how to successfully interview in accordance with oral history standards, Richards said.
The event will be held in the Special Collections and Archives Department in Meyer Library 306 tomorrow from 10:30 a.m. to noon.
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