In this post, current OHMA BA/MA student Rozanne Gooding Silverwood (2015) reflects on the art of transcription and offers her perspective on how the NYPL Community Oral History Project might increase the enlistment of volunteer transcribers by educating prospective participants about the literary history and aesthetic value of rendering the spoken word to text.
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In this post, current OHMA student Pablo Baeza reflects on his internship with Voice of Witness, publishers of a human rights-focused oral history book series. Pablo discusses the ethics of editing interviews for publication and offers a comparison to the experience of compiling his thesis website, Neuva York es la Frontera.
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