Our oral history teaching colleagues in Columbia’s master’s program will be hosting their lively and boundary-pushing workshop series again this Fall. This year’s theme is “Experiments in Oral History Methodology.” Oral history as a research tool has been at times almost synonymous with a certain kind of interviewing: one-on-one, biographical, long-form, recorded, and intended for […]
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Exhibition | Lost In Transcription
Oral history transcription practice has undergone several changes since implemented at the inception of the field’s standardization and formalization starting in the late 1960s. The oral history transcripts selected for the “Lost in Transcription” case in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s exhibition, Original Copies: Facsimiles & Mediations of Authenticity & Ownership, reflect different […]