Doing oral history : a practical guide : using interviews to uncover the past and preserve it for the future / Donald A. Ritchie.

References and index.

"Provides advice and explanations on how to create recordings that illuminate human experience for generations to come. Explores all aspects of oral history, from starting an oral history project, including funding, staffing, and equipment to conducting interviews; publishing; videotaping; preserving materials; teaching oral history; and using oral history in museums and on the radio." ---OCLC record

An oral history of our time -- Setting up an oral history project -- Conducting interviews -- Using oral history in research and writing -- Videotaping oral history -- Preserving oral history in archives and libraries -- Teaching oral history -- Presenting oral history.