Community Oral History
Online Guide
This is an online guide and training course for Victorian community groups that wish to create and preserve oral history collections.
These resources provide expert, accessible guidance and training to support Victorian community history groups to:
- create and document high quality oral history recordings;
- ensure effective, ethical long-term preservation and access to community oral history
collections.
The resources are provided across the following six webpages. Click the links below to start exploring!
Oral History Victoria will periodically offer a new training course linked to this web resource.
While this resource contains some information specific to Victoria, it will be useful for oral historians practicing anywhere.
1. Project planning and preparation
2. Creating excellent interviews
3. Documenting interviews
4. Ethics legalities and rights
5. Victorian Collections
6. Other preservation options
Oral History Victoria gratefully acknowledges the Local History Grants Program and Public Record Office Victoria, supported by the Victorian Government through the Community Support Fund. The development of this project was supported and guided by an expert advisory panel of members from Oral History Victoria, State Library Victoria, AMAGA, CO.AS.IT, Yarrawonga Oral History Group, LDaCA and Way Back When Consulting Historians.