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Re: Oral History Transcripts



Interesting question.  I have only two oral history tapes in my
collection -- one that I took in recently and created an extensive key word
finding aid for (there was no transcription with it).  The other item was in
the Archives before my arrival without any documentation.  What I found
initially was the transcription which I catalogued using my usual archival
cataloguing process (i.e., no MARC or traditional library cataloguing).
Only recently have I found the tapes which I did not previously know
existed, and I have not dealt with them yet.  Given your question, I'll have
to think about it some more, but my initial reaction is to catalogue them as
a "surrogate" of the typed transcription.  The same thing I did recently
with another audio tape recording we have which we digitized and put on a
CD-ROM, only here the original cassette tape was catalogued and I
cross-referenced the CD-ROM as the surrogate.

Hope to hear what other will/would do.

Catherine Bruck
University Archivist
Illinois Institute of Technology
Paul V. Galvin Library
35 W. 33rd St.
Chicago, IL  60616
312/567-6840
312/567-5318 (FAX)
bruck@iit.edu

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Subject: Oral History Transcripts


Greetings,

I am not an archivist, but a cataloger in search of some information.

Here at UCA the oral history tapes have been transcribed and
bound as paper documents. These are housed in the archives
separately from the tapes.

My question is: How do other institutions handle these paper
documents?

Does your catalog staff do full MARC cataloging in a public utility
complete with LC subject headings and classification? Or is it only
in the local catalog? Do you just have a finding aid of some sort?
Are the paper copies simply attached to the record for the
tape/primary source?

Thank you for any help you can give.
*Brooke Lippy
********************
Brooke Lippy, Catalog Librarian
University of Central Arkansas
201 Donaghey Ave.
Conway, AR 72035
E-mail: brookel@mail.uca.edu
Phone: 501-450-5254

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