ERIC Number: ED150060
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1977-Aug
Pages: 71
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Collecting Local History: Proceedings of a Workshop Held March 16 and 17, 1977, at the San Leandro Community Library Center.
San Francisco Public Library, CA. Bay Area Reference Center.
The report presents proceedings of a workshop held in San Leandro, California, March 16-17, 1977, to teach librarians about collecting local history and conducting oral history interviews. The workshop was sponsored by the Bay Area Reference Center, located in San Francisco. Speakers included library directors and administrators, manuscript librarians, and outreach workers from public, private, and college libraries in California. Topics included collecting ephemera (transitory objects such as playbills and match box covers), cataloging archival materials, indexing local newspapers, caring for and preserving materials, and recording oral history. Several speakers presented case studies of local history projects at their own libraries. One of these focused on local women's history. Appendices provide a selective bibliography on collecting and researching local history, sample descriptive guides and catalog cards for manuscript collections, how-to-do-it materials on oral history, and a directory of sources related to the care of photographs and archival collections. (AV)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Archives, Community Study, Guidelines, Higher Education, Indexing, Information Processing, Library Acquisition, Library Collections, Library Material Selection, Library Research, Library Science, Library Services, Library Technical Processes, Local History, Oral History, Program Descriptions, Program Development, Social History
Publication Type: Collected Works - Proceedings
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Sponsor: Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: San Francisco Public Library, CA. Bay Area Reference Center.
Identifiers - Location: California
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