PowerPoint Presentation

Village Gossip:themed interviews and digital curation

BySindy Dowden & Cate Pattison

Introduction will show you how the grove library is changing the way we collect oral h interviews and how those interviews are used to enhance the collection.1

The Oral History Program

CH is like any other LH library in that it has images, newspapers and of course OH. Interviews fall into three broad categories. Traditional whole of life with person who has lived in the area for a significant length of time organizational which are with a person associated with an organisation, business or community group which has served the community for a sig amount of time and the new themed project interviews which are a completely different approach. Pass over to Cate to explain.2

Village GossipReflections on Napoleon Street, Cottesloe

Cottesloe Picture Theatre(demolished 1964)

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Village GossipAn organic evolution

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Village GossipWhat did we do?

Napoleon Street, 1980s

Sue Carew-Reid

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Village GossipA bit about the Napoleon Street

Cargeegs Shoe Salon

Gordon Cargeeg

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Village GossipSomething for nothing

Eating and drinking in public? You did NOT do that!Gunhild Marchant

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Village Gossip

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1Recording(s)

One Hour CompilationThe Pioneers00.50In the Village16.15More than Just Shopping31.25Refreshments Available or not43.10Getting on with Business46.50A Sense of Community50.05What of the Future?59.20(also 13 individual)Village GossipIn the basket2TX Notes

Compilation& individual3Project report and discussion paper

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Village GossipLessons learnt

Clear copyright for ALL use at the outset

Set participant limit

Aim for Broadcast quality

Cultivate Curiosity

Charlie Coogan

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Much more than a store

ARCHIVE

DIGITALPROJECTSSOCIAL MEDIAHARVEST SOUND BITES

- a catalogue of memories

So what do we do with the interviews once we get them back from the interviewers? We store in the archive and add a copy of the entire interview to the shelf but we do a lot more than that. Each interview is dissected and sound bites are harvested and catalogued into subject folders. This means that I dont have to listen to entire interviews to locate suitable content, they are there categorised and I can just select an appropriate bite. The sound bites are published onto social media and these feed straight into the Grove History APP-our main marketing tool. The sound bites are also extensively used in our digital projects.11

Interviews most popular.

Sound bites uploaded to SoundCloud. Over the life of the APP the stats show that the interviews have outperformed the images and the digital stories. Proving there is an appetite for short excerpts. The global reach afforded by this APP has been quite considerable and far better than we could have achieved via websites alone.12

@Grove History

Also posted on our Facebook feed generates discussion around topics draws people to our collection and teases out additional facts.13

Digital stories onManly Hostel Cottesloe

Sound bites integrated with images and narration to generate digital stories. Numerous uploaded to YouTube advantage for people inquiring about a site as we can direct them to the digital story rather than print off a few sheets of printed text. Offers a more entertaining history and showcases the extent of the digital assets held in the library.14

Anita Martin interviewed by Heather Campbell

Concept of the digital stories used throughout the PG Heritage Tour. Consists of 22 sites and has geo-locational functionality. The digital stories are manually activated when the participant is in the vicinity of the exhibit. Example of a digital story: Nellie MacFarlanes Tearooms in PG to show how integration of sound bites is achieved.15

The apps impressed the judges with their use of existing local history material, donated by the community, and presenting it in an accessible and interesting way.

For modelling how to use the assets within our collection to produce entertaining and accessible projects we were awarded the LBWA AE-2014. This enabled us to purchase professional recording equipment, as most of our narrations are recorded in-house and to also purchase an Apple PC. This led onto thr the final project I have to show you, STWS iBook.16

Settling the Western Suburbs

This project pulls in all the different digital assets and was designed to assist educators to deliver the history curriculum. Lots of interactive features, an audio overlay and a glossary to aid comprehension. Great feedback from the education department who have listed it onto their e-resources website. Short video to give a flavour of the sort of features on offer.17

Thats all folks!THINKRESEARCHCREATEPUBLISHTRIAL

We hope this has demonstrated how The Grove Library is changing the way it is collecting interviews and given you a few ideas of how you can use those interviews to enhance your collections. Thank you18