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Registration and Welcome
9:00 - 9:30

Session 1: Planning and Funding an Oral History Digitization Project
9:30 - 10:30

"Climbing the STAIRs: Developing an Outline for Oral History Projects" (2.29MB)
  Brenda L. Burk
  Philanthropic Studies Archivist, University Library
  Special Collections and Archives, IUPUI

"What Do Funders Look For?" (66K)
  Connie Rendfeld
  LSTA Consultant for the Indiana State Library

"Creating an Oral History Component for a Digital History Project" (1.5MB)
  Cinda May
  Assistant Librarian and Project Coordinator for Wabash Valley
  Visions and Voices Project, Indiana State University

-Moderator-
  John B. Straw
  Director for Archives and Special Collections, Ball State University Libraries

Break
10:30 - 10:45

Session 2: Copyright Issues for Digital Oral History Projects
10:45-11:30

Fritz Dolak
Copyright and Intellectual Property Manager of the University Copyright Office and Special Assistant to the Dean, Ball State University Libraries

Luncheon and Keynote: “Other Side of Middletown Oral History Project”
(Electronic version of presentation unavailable)
11:30-1:00

Luke "Eric" Lassiter
Professor of Humanities & Anthropology and Director of the Graduate Humanities Program Graduate College, Marshall University

Elizabeth Campbell
PhD candidate in the Composition and TESOL Program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania

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Session 3: Audio Digitization Process: Equipment, Standards, & Digitization
1:00 - 2:00

“Going Native : A Process Oriented Approach to Digital Oral Histories” (390K)
  Jim Bradley
  Head of Metadata and Digital Initiatives, Ball State University Libraries

"Audio Digitizing Equipment" (293K)
  Jeffrey Green
  Sweetwater Sound

Session 4: Transcription and Metadata
2:00-2:45

Amanda Hurford
Digital Initiatives Multimedia Developer, Ball State University Libraries

Maren Read
Assistant Archivist for Manuscript Collections, Ball State University Libraries

Break
2:45 - 3:00

Session 5: Current Digital Oral History Projects
3:00-4:00

"Hearing Voices of the Past: The Middletown Digital Oral History Collection in the Ball State University Digital Media Repository" (389K)
  John B. Straw
  Director for Archives and Special Collections, Ball State University Libraries

"Choose Your Own Path: Using CONTENTdm to Provide Access to Oral Histories at the University of Louisville" (869K)
  Carrie Daniels
  Associate Director of the University Archives and Records Center
  and Co-Director of the Oral History Center at the University of Louisville

"Kent State Shootings Oral Histories" (354K)
  Kathleen Medicus
  Special Collections Cataloger, Kent State University Libraries & Media Services

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