Many thanks to everyone who emailed
me with information and suggestions on how to conduct oral histories.
For the benefit of the list, the most
often recommended basic "how to" manual seemed to be Donald A.
Ritchie's _Doing Oral History: A Practical Guide_ (2nd ed.), Oxford University
Press (2003), 320 pp.
Of the several websites that were also
recommended--all of which I explored and found helpful--the one suggested
the most frequently was the Institute for Oral History at Baylor University
<http://www.baylor.edu/oral%5Fhistory/ or http://tinyurl.com/s3cfu>.
For those interested in this thread, that site offers an online workshop
on oral history methodology.
Again, my thanks for all helpful advice.
You are a really resourceful group of professional colleagues.
Harry
Harry G. Heiss, Archivist
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