[Ohiodig] Video Interview Collection Announcement - Diversity in UA
Sara Nagai
snagai at ualibrary.org
Thu May 9 12:10:35 EDT 2024
Thank you so much, Hydy! I'm glad to hear this was helpful, and I'll be
wishing you well with your oral history collection at Columbus State! These
kinds of collections are so interesting to assemble.
- Sara
Sara Nagai (she/her)
Digital Archives Coordinator
Research Department
Tremont Road Branch
Upper Arlington Public Library
(614) 486-9621 ext. 281
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> This is great, Sara!
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> And has given me thoughts about how to handle the Oral History collection
> (audio only) that I'm currently working on for Columbus State. Thanks so
> much for sharing!
>
> Hydy
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> Hi all,
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> 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<http://ualibrary.org/> | uaarchives.org<
> http://uaarchives.org/>
>
> We build connections that make lives better.
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