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The essentials of oral history research: Recording seriously — Wellington
Part of Oral history workshops — 2023 series
Saturday 10 June 2023, 8:45am to 4:30pm
$300 for both days or $220 for Community Service Card holders
Book a spot on our two-day workshop that gives an introduction to oral history methodology led by Lynette Shum, Oral History Advisor at the Alexander Turnbull Library. The workshop is ideal for people considering using oral history in their work, community or personal projects.
Workshop fully booked
This workshop is now full. Contact us if you'd like to:
join our waitlist for this workshop, or
attend a future workshop so we can let you know when it's being held.
Email us at ATLOutreach@dia.govt.nz
Practical introduction to oral history
An introduction to oral history methodology. Includes:
how to plan an oral history project
choose the best equipment
achieve clear audio recordings
select informants
follow ethical procedures
develop questioning techniques
process oral history, and
make the material available for use.
Attendance on both days is required and places are limited.
Day 1 Introduction to oral history — Saturday 6 May 2023
Day 2 Recording seriously — Sunday 10 June 2023
Book your spot
Email us to book a spot in this ever-popular course — ATLoutreach@dia.govt.nz
Principles-based training
Our training is based on the principles in the National Oral History Association of New Zealand’s Code of Ethical and Technical Practice, and international archival standards.
About the speaker
Lynette Shum has been the Oral History Advisor with the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, since 2011. As well as offering training and advice in oral history, Lynette is also carrying out a long-term oral history project recording people who lived or worked in the Chinese centre of Wellington. She has lead many guided walks of this area and written about aspects of Chinese lives based on her oral history recordings and other research.
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A wounded World War I soldier talking to a nurse at the garden party in the grounds of the New Zealand Stationary Hospital, 1917, by Henry Armytage Sanders. Ref: 1/2-012800-G. Alexander Turnbull Library.