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Main Authors: McKether, Willie L., Jeter, Melissa
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:en
Published: 2011
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Online Access:https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ946818
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author McKether, Willie L.
Jeter, Melissa
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Jeter, Melissa
McKether, Willie L.
Jeter, Melissa
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contents Doing More with Less: How a Library Expanded Its Oral History Collection McKether, Willie L. Jeter, Melissa United States History Oral History Local History African American History Libraries Library Networks Librarians Library Materials Public Libraries Grants Video Technology Library Role Partnerships in Education Cooperation This article highlights a successful collaborative project between the Toledo-Lucas County Library System, a university professor, and a local production company in order to expand the library's African American oral history collection. The project, made possible from a state technology grant, also resulted in the production of 20 television-quality DVDs and lesson guides. In addition to describing how we expanded the library's local African American history collection, we discuss how the project required a new collaborative culture. We also describe the unintended discovery of the evolving role and required skill sets of the librarian in the new collaboration relationship. The knowledge we gained helps us to fill a gap in our understanding about how to establish specialty collections as well as the required emergent role of the librarian. (Contains 9 notes.)
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spellingShingle Doing More with Less: How a Library Expanded Its Oral History Collection
McKether, Willie L.
Jeter, Melissa
United States History
Oral History
Local History
African American History
Libraries
Library Networks
Librarians
Library Materials
Public Libraries
Grants
Video Technology
Library Role
Partnerships in Education
Cooperation
Doing More with Less: How a Library Expanded Its Oral History Collection McKether, Willie L. Jeter, Melissa United States History Oral History Local History African American History Libraries Library Networks Librarians Library Materials Public Libraries Grants Video Technology Library Role Partnerships in Education Cooperation This article highlights a successful collaborative project between the Toledo-Lucas County Library System, a university professor, and a local production company in order to expand the library's African American oral history collection. The project, made possible from a state technology grant, also resulted in the production of 20 television-quality DVDs and lesson guides. In addition to describing how we expanded the library's local African American history collection, we discuss how the project required a new collaborative culture. We also describe the unintended discovery of the evolving role and required skill sets of the librarian in the new collaboration relationship. The knowledge we gained helps us to fill a gap in our understanding about how to establish specialty collections as well as the required emergent role of the librarian. (Contains 9 notes.)
title Doing More with Less: How a Library Expanded Its Oral History Collection
topic United States History
Oral History
Local History
African American History
Libraries
Library Networks
Librarians
Library Materials
Public Libraries
Grants
Video Technology
Library Role
Partnerships in Education
Cooperation
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ946818