Stories Without Writing: Local and Family History Beyond the Written Word

World Library and Information Congress:
19-23 August 2007, Durban, South Africa

Papers Presented at the Open Session
Genealogy and Local History Section (in collaboration with Audiovisual and Multimedia Section)

• African Oral Genealogy: Collecting and Preserving Yesterday for Tomorrow
  Osei-Agyemang Bonsu
  Area Support Manager, Family & Church History, FamilySearch
  Accra, Ghana
  and
  Melvin P. Thatcher
  Genealogical Society of Utah/FamilySearch
  Salt Lake City, U.S.A.
• Tradición oral indígena en el sur de América Latina: los esfuerzos de la biblioteca por salvar sonidos e historias del silencio /
  [Indigenous Oral Tradition in Southern Latin America: A Library’s Effort to Save Sounds and Stories from Silence]  /
  [Tradition orale dans le sud de ‘Amérique Latine: les efforts de la bibliothèque pour sauver des sons et des histories du silence]
  Edgardo Civallero
  National University of Córdoba
  Argentina
• A Library’s Efforts in a Journey of Salvaging the Vanishing Culture /
  [中文] / [Русский]
  Zhang Hongxia
  Hainain
  Hainan University Library
  Haiku, China
  and
  Zhan Changzhi
  China
• Earned Wisdom: The Library’s Role in Encouraging Inter-Generational Storytelling /
  [Conocimiento adquirido: el papel de la biblioteca en fomentar narraciones y relatos de historias entre las generaciones] /
  [La sagesse gagnée: le rôle du bibliothécaire dans l’encouragement des histoires dans une optique intergénérationnelle]
  Liz Weir, Professional Storyteller
  Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
• Oral Histories Online: The Human Perspective of Historic Boston /
  [Relatos Orales en Linea: Una Perspectiva Humana del Boston Histórico] /
  [Les histoires orales en ligne: la perspective humaine de l’histoire de Boston] /

  [Русский]
  Maura Marx
  Boston Public Library
  Boston, U.S.A.
  and
  John David Perry
  Pittsburgh, U.S.A.

• "It was another Alexandria": An Oral Narrative of a Cosmopolitan City /
  [Existió otra Alejandría: una narrative oral de una ciudad cosmopolito] /
  [Ce fut une autre Alexandrie: le récit oral d’une grande ville cosmopolite]  /
  [العربية]
  Sahar Hamouda
  Bibliotheca Alexandrina
  Alexandria, Egypt
• Vancouver in 1907: A Case Study of Archival Film as a Source of Local History/
  [Vancouver en 1907: étude de cas: le film d’archive comme source pour l’histoire locale] /
  [Русский]
  Janet Tomkins and Andrew Martin
  Vancouver Public Library
  Vancouver, Canada
• Developing Digital Communities: The War Detectives Project / [Русский]
  Elaine Fulton
  Scottish Library and Information Council
  Hamilton, Scotland, United Kingdom