Florida Voices is an initiative of the Florida
Electronic Library to support all types of libraries
and cultural heritage organizations in Florida in initiating
and maintaining digital oral history programs. The ultimate
goals of the project are:
- To develop an online digital archive
of oral histories that give voice to Florida's
diverse communities
- To design and develop infrastructure to collect,
store, preserve and provide access to oral histories
- To collect and disseminate procedures, policies
and best practices pertaining to oral history in
Florida
As a first step towards meeting these goals, the Florida
Electronic Library sponsored a set of deliverables
for 2007/2008 that included:
- This Florida Voices website, which includes
a detailed guide to
oral history and a directory of
oral history collections
- A prototype collection of oral histories
- Records for Florida oral histories in Florida
On Florida
- The workshop "Telling It Like It Was: Doing
Oral History in the Digital Age," held in conjunction
with the Florida Library Association 2007 conference.
The keynote
address was given by Doug Boyd, the Digital Services
Program Manager at the University of Alabama Library
and former Director of the Kentucky Oral History
Commission.
The Florida Voices website was designed by Tennille
Herron at the Florida Center for Library Automation,
with content contributed by Priscilla Caplan, Assistant
Director for Digital Library Services at the Florida
Center for Library Automation, and Karen Kruse Thomas,
Ph.D., Associate Director, Reichelt Oral History Program,
Florida State University and Adjunct Assistant Professor,
Department of History, University of Florida.
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