We're happy to announce the second in a series of community archives workshops. This workshop explores the theory and practice of oral history, a field of study that documents the past through first-person interviews conducted in the present-day with an emphasis on creating space for community organizations which might not have had access to oral history projects. SCUA staff will examine various means for community members to plan, conduct, and share oral history projects using SCUA's Oral History Toolkit. The Toolkit provides community members with both a Quick Start Guide and more detailed Manual for those who want to stand up their own projects. The workshop will explore these two tracks, incorporating exercises for developing questions, interviewing, recording, and sharing interviews. Whether you plan to share recordings with relatives or are interested in donating them to an archive, this workshop will provide the means for conducting and capturing high quality interviews.

Register for workshop here.

Time: 9-1030AM

Location: Ames Public Library, 515 Douglas Ave, Ames, IA, 50010