Hamilton City Libraries has an oral history collection of over 700 tapes. Some of the oral histories form parts of projects, such as new immigrants to Hamilton or people remembering their youth in Hamilton during the 1940s and 50s, while others are interviews with individuals from all walks of life. Together they form a wonderful and vital social history resource. As some of these tapes date from the 1970s we would like to digitise them before the format deteriorates to the point where they can no longer be used. Digitisation would also enable us to make the interviews available online
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A very worthwhile project
Many people have done a lot of work over the last few decades to preserve our history by recording all kinds of people from various backgrounds. It is essential that the oral interviews are preserved on a medium that is long lasting and available to everyone to access.
this should be a standard procedure for all the small-to-medium local history groups and museums – not just Hamilton. What scope is there for the kete software used by Levin Public Library to be used at places like Hamilton>
Hi Kent,
Kete are used and managed by a number of libraries across NZ.
http://kete.net.nz/en/site/kete_sites?view_as=list