[Ohiodig] Video Interview Collection Announcement - Diversity in UA

[Sara Nagai]

Hi all,

I wanted to share a new collection in the Upper Arlington Public Library's
UA Archives that I'm very passionate about. Concerned by the lack of
diversity in Upper Arlington's historical record, several years ago I began
interviewing community members from diverse and underrepresented
backgrounds about their journeys within and outside of the community. In
the resulting videos, the interviewees share very personal and often
painful reflections.

Our collection just launched a few weeks ago, and the community response
has been overwhelmingly positive. The participants themselves described
going through the interview process and publicly sharing their stories as
"healing" and "cathartic."

This 14-minute highlights video
<https://www.uaarchives.org/digital/collection/p16276coll9/id/43/rec/1>
provides a brief overview of the interviewees and themes within the
collection. As a disclaimer, I'm a digital archives librarian and by no
means an experienced interviewer or filmmaker :) Each participant's full
interview is also included in the overall *Diversity in UA* collection
<https://www.uaarchives.org/digital/collection/p16276coll9/search>.

To provide a bit more background, we are a CONTENTdm hosted library, and
I've embedded each video into a compound document via YouTube streaming
link. I edited the videos in Premiere Pro, and they were uploaded to
YouTube with custom sidecar caption files to maintain accuracy of
names/locations and support translation into different languages.
Printable, timestamped PDF transcripts were also created to help users find
different keywords/topics. The compound document for each interviewee also
includes relevant photos and articles, as well as a story written by an
interviewee on the autism spectrum. The record for Deneen Day
<https://www.uaarchives.org/digital/collection/p16276coll9/id/17/rec/4> is
a good example of how full interviews were conducted as well as how
individual compound documents are structured.

Hopefully this will be of interest to others, and thanks in advance for
viewing!

- Sara

Sara Nagai (she/her)

Digital Archives Coordinator

Research Department

Tremont Road Branch

Upper Arlington Public Library

(614) 486-9621 ext. 281

ualibrary.org | uaarchives.org

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