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SW-54 Oral history at the Center of Southwest Studies -- a one page description of the Center's oral history program; for use at the College and beyond.
SW-52 Southwest Studies oral history interviews and recording equipment use policy Center staff adopted this policy in its staff meeting on July 21, 1995. It applies to any interview(s) done on behalf of the Center of Southwest Studies and/or using its equipment.
SW-6 Oral history release form
SW-7 Oral history biographical questionnaire
SW-8 Oral history interview guidelines
Chronological list of historical events at Fort Lewis and Durango, Colorado
SW-9 Standard text for formal introduction to an oral history recording
SW-21 Oral history interview abstract
SW-22 Oral history pre-interview checklist
SW-29 Oral history interview box contents checklist
SW-30 Oral history interview transcription guidelines
SW-37 Oral history project sequence
SW-41 Oral history interview transcription checklist
SW-91 Oral history interview evaluation form
Oral history interviews already at the Center of Southwest Studies
Read the transcription of Todd Ellison's 1994 interview with Fort Lewis College History Professor Duane Smith pertaining to the production of oral histories. (Requires Adobe Reader free downloadable software, version 6.0 or more recent.) Also, click here to listen to that interview online: Side A ~ Side B.
Capturing the Living Past: An Oral History Primer by Barbara W. Sommer and Mary Kay Quinlan, Nebraska State Historical Society
Project Instruction Kit for the Veterans History Project by the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress (includes forms for doing oral history interviews)
Tools for Fort Lewis College records management: (Click here for a one-page PDF overview of archives, records management and you.)
Instructions for sending boxes of College records to the Center of Southwest Studies for storage
State of Colorado records management manual (to access the records retention schedules for Colorado institutions of higher education, scroll down to click on Part I Section 8)
Other institutions’ records management manuals:
Archival work at the Center of Southwest Studies: (Click here for a one-page PDF overview of archives, records management and you.)
Archival keys: an online tutorial by Todd Ellison, for learning basic practical archival concepts and practices.
Fort Lewis College Archives policy statement (approved by President Jones, VP Langworthy, and the Core Cabinet, Nov. 1994, along with the Fort Lewis College Records Management Program Authorization approved by same by Jan. 7, 1995; revised Mar. 9, 1995) - these are guidelines for Fort Lewis College staff, pertaining only to the institution's own records.
Fort Lewis College Archives collection description
List of special collections management forms
Digitization standards. (see also the Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for
Preservation and Access, edited by Maxine K. Sitts, Northeast Document Conservation Center
Andover, Massachusetts, 2000; last modified 1/21/03; link active as of 12/4/06)Nitrate photonegatives film identification notch codes and other tips
Cataloging:
Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology (compiled by Richard Pearce-Moses for the Society of American Archivists)
Standards for Archival Description (compiled by Victoria Irons Walch for the Society of American Archivists; a handbook describes technical standards, conventions, and guidelines used by archivists in describing holdings and repositories)
Tags, indicators and subfields to use in MARC:AMC cataloging at Center of Southwest Studies
OCLC cataloging bibliographic formats and standards
Technical processing online tools instructions for MARC:AMC cataloging
Sample database form from the Center of Southwest Studies postcards database
Library of Congress authority headings for Subject, Name, Title and Name/Title combinations.
Getty Museum Art and Architecture (aat genre terms) thesaurus
Preservation:
Preservation Calculator ("How good is your storage environment? How fast is your collection deteriorating? A planning and analysis tool, produced by the Image Permanence Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology)
U.S. National Park Service Conserve-O-Grams
The Permanence and Care of Color Photographs: Traditional and digital color prints, color negatives, slides, and motion pictures (book by Henry Wilhelm; free download; 758 pages; 70.6MB)
Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS): what to do if you or your collections are near it
For a short concise description of how to preserve, arrange and describe family papers and photographs, see my Preserving and Arranging Your Family Papers guidebook, which is also available as an E-Book, as is a short booklet on Emergency Preparedness.
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Page last modified: February 22, 2008
