Oral History:
A Selective Bibliography

Books in Carrier Library

• Doing oral history.  By Donald A. Ritchie. New York: Twayne Publishers,1995.  D16.14 R57 1995
  

• Oral history, an interdisciplinary anthology.  Ed. By David K. Dunaway.  Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, c1996.  D14.16 O73 1996.
  

• Listening to history; the authenticity of oral evidence. By Trevor Lummis.  Totowa, NJ:  Barnes & Noble Books, 1988.  D16.14 L86 1988.
  

• Oral history, a guide for teachers (and others).  By Thad Sitton.  Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983.  D16.14 S57 1983.
  

• Transcribing and editing oral history.  2nd printing, with corrections. By Willa K. Baum.  Nashville:  American Association for State and Local History, 1981.   D16.14 .B38 1981.

Websites

• Oral History Association.  Founded 1966.  Based at Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA 17013. http://www.dickinson.edu/oha/    Click on “Evaluation Guidelines” on left menu to see the Association’s Principles and Standards.  OHA publishes the Oral History Review, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals/ohr/index.htm, and sponsors the Oral History listserv,
   http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~oralhist/
  
• Columbia University Oral History Research Office.  Founded in 1948, this is the oldest oral history program in the world and the largest, with 8,000 taped memoirs and a million pages of transcripts. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/oral/
  
• Baylor University Oral History Workshop on the Web http://www3.baylor.edu/Oral_History/Workshop.htm

Locating Oral History Projects and Publications

Books in Carrier Library:  

• Directory of oral history collections. By Allen Smith.  Phoenix : Oryx Press, 1988.  Reference  D16.14 .S54 1988
  

• Oral history in the United States; a directory. Compiled by Gary L. Shumway.  New York, Oral History Association, 1971.  Reference E175.4.S58
  

• Oral history index : an international directory of oral history interviews. Westport: Meckler, 1990.  Reference D16.14 .O74 1990.

Searching Carrier Library: 

• Use the subject, Oral History, to search Leo, the Carrier Library online catalog, to find the entire spectrum of books about oral history.
  

• For a list of oral histories held in Carrier Library Special Collections, type the series title, James Madison University sound archives in the Title box on Leo. 

Searching the Web:  Use "oral history" (in quotes) on the Google search engine.