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