9. 1
Recording(s)
One Hour Compilation
The Pioneers 00.50
In the Village 16.15
More than Just Shopping 31.25
Refreshments Available… or not 43.10
Getting on with Business 46.50
A Sense of Community 50.05
What of the Future? 59.20
(also 13 individual)
2
TX Notes
Compilation
& individual
3
Project
report and
discussion
paper
10. • Clear copyright for
ALL use at the
outset
• Set participant limit
• Aim for Broadcast
quality
• Cultivate Curiosity
Charlie Coogan
16. “The apps impressed the judges with their use of existing local
history material, donated by the community, and presenting it in
an accessible and interesting way.”
Introduction – will show you how the grove library is changing the way we collect oral h interviews and how those interviews are used to enhance the collection.
CH is like any other LH library in that it has images, newspapers and of course OH. Interviews fall into three broad categories. Traditional – whole of life with person who has lived in the area for a significant length of time – organizational which are with a person associated with an organisation, business or community group which has served the community for a sig amount of time and the new themed project interviews which are a completely different approach. Pass over to Cate to explain.
So what do we do with the interviews once we get them back from the interviewers? We store in the archive and add a copy of the entire interview to the shelf – but we do a lot more than that. Each interview is dissected and sound bites are harvested and catalogued into subject folders. This means that I don’t have to listen to entire interviews to locate suitable content, they are there categorised and I can just select an appropriate bite. The sound bites are published onto social media and these feed straight into the Grove History APP-our main marketing tool. The sound bites are also extensively used in our digital projects.
Sound bites uploaded to SoundCloud. Over the life of the APP the stats show that the interviews have outperformed the images and the digital stories. Proving there is an appetite for short excerpts. The global reach afforded by this APP has been quite considerable and far better than we could have achieved via websites alone.
Also posted on our Facebook feed – generates discussion around topics – draws people to our collection and teases out additional facts.
Sound bites integrated with images and narration to generate digital stories. Numerous uploaded to YouTube – advantage for people inquiring about a site as we can direct them to the digital story rather than print off a few sheets of printed text. Offers a more entertaining history and showcases the extent of the digital assets held in the library.
Concept of the digital stories used throughout the PG Heritage Tour. Consists of 22 sites and has geo-locational functionality. The digital stories are manually activated when the participant is in the vicinity of the exhibit. Example of a digital story: Nellie MacFarlane’s Tearooms in PG to show how integration of sound bites is achieved.
For modelling how to use the assets within our collection to produce entertaining and accessible projects we were awarded the LBWA – AE-2014. This enabled us to purchase professional recording equipment, as most of our narrations are recorded in-house and to also purchase an Apple PC. This led onto thr the final project I have to show you, STWS iBook.
This project pulls in all the different digital assets and was designed to assist educators to deliver the history curriculum. Lots of interactive features, an audio overlay and a glossary to aid comprehension. Great feedback from the education department who have listed it onto their e-resources website. Short video to give a flavour of the sort of features on offer.
We hope this has demonstrated how The Grove Library is changing the way it is collecting interviews and given you a few ideas of how you can use those interviews to enhance your collections. Thank you