LibGuides: Oral History Resources: Step by Step Guides

Guides

Use these step by step guides to help you develop and plan your oral history project. These guides provide tips for preparation, interviewing, preservation, and access to your oral histories.

OHA Web Guides to Doing Oral History
Oral History Association (OHA) has compiled a list of various guides on the web to help with your oral history projects.
Oral History Association Best Practices
The Oral History Association’s guidelines for how to conduct a high-quality oral history interview highlights standard practices that should help produce historically valuable and ethically conducted interviews.
Oral History Interviewing Guidelines
These guidelines were developed by the UCLA Center for Oral History Research.
Oral History Interviews Guide
The American Folklife Center developed this interview guide. The center collects and documents living traditional culture, while preserving for the future its unparalleled collections in the state-of-the-art preservation facilities of the Library of Congress.
Oral History Interviewing Guidelines
The UCLA Library developed this guide on conducting an oral history interview.

Equipment

Capturing your oral history will require basic audio recording equipment. Check out the following recommendations.

Basic Oral History Recording Kit
The Sustainable Heritage Network provides these recommendations for the set-up of a basic oral history recording kit for the recording of audio interviews.
Getting Started: Recording Equipment
The Oral History Society in the UK provides tips on recording equipment to get you started with your oral history project.