{"id":646,"date":"2013-09-12T14:07:11","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T14:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/?p=646"},"modified":"2013-09-12T14:07:11","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T14:07:11","slug":"capturing-stories-librarian-oral-histories-project-added-ala-archives-digital-holdings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/2013\/09\/12\/capturing-stories-librarian-oral-histories-project-added-ala-archives-digital-holdings\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCapturing our Stories\u201d Librarian Oral Histories Project Added to ALA Archives\u2019 Digital Holdings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">As part of her 2007-08 presidential term, Loriene Roy initiated an oral history program for retiring librarians, \u201cCapturing Our Stories.\u201d So far this program, which is still on-going, has produced 35 recordings with full transcripts, which have now been added to the ALA Digital Archives and made available to researchers online.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Librarians interviewed range from school librarians to public library directors to catalogers, from California to New York. One librarian of note interviewed is Sanford Berman, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/prejudices-and-antipathies-a-tract-on-the-lc-subject-heads-concerning-people\/oclc\/27143813\"><em>Prejudices and Antipathies<\/em>,<\/a> famous criticism of the sexism and racism inherent in the Library of Congress subject headings of the 1970s. <a href=\"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/alaarchon\/index.php?p=collections\/controlcard&amp;id=7831\">Berman\u2019s personal papers<\/a> are also held in the ALA Archives.<\/p>\n<p>[ensemblevideo contentid=nG8i4Nk2Nk-V5dFHlK6rqg]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/alaarchon\/index.php?p=collections\/controlcard&amp;id=8511\">Explore the full holdings of these oral histories here.<\/a><b id=\"docs-internal-guid-6c5da6a7-0453-406d-5eb9-9be990ac180b\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re interested in helping with the \u201cCapturing Our Stories,&#8221; you can find more information at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ischool.utexas.edu\/~stories\/index.html\">the project website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of her 2007-08 presidential term, Loriene Roy initiated an oral history program for retiring librarians, \u201cCapturing Our Stories.\u201d So far this program, which is still on-going, has produced 35 recordings with full transcripts, which have now been added to the ALA Digital Archives and made available to researchers online. Librarians interviewed range from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":573,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[130,171],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-in-the-archives","tag-librarianship","tag-oral-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/573"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ala\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}