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How do I find Oral History Collections at JMU?

Any search in Leo will search oral history interviews.

  • I have particular search terms and want to limit results to oral histories...

          Do a keyword search in Leo and limit location and material type as shown below:

I ONLY want to search among oral histories, and I want them all...

List All Oral History Interviews --This will give you a numeric list of all interviews, as seen in the screenshot below.  Most interviews were conducted as part of a person's research on a particular topic or were donated from an organization.  SdArch stands for "Sound Archives."  ex.: an interview numbered SdArch 5-1 is related to an interview numbered SdArch 5-2.

How do I search among them?

Further refine your search by clicking "Limit Search" which will give you the following options.  The only selection box that will be useful for refining your oral history search is the box shown below that defaults to Title--change that to Author or Subject then enter your name or term.

 

Quick Searches:

List All Oral History Interviews  [how do I search among them?]

Selected Collections

Note: "Finding Aids" are descriptions of particular collections that put the interviews in context. 

"Leo Hits" are direct results for individual interviews.

    Also known as SC# 4030, this collection consists of over 130 interviews, each of which are currently being cataloged.  The finding aid is being revised to reflect this.

  • Shenandoah Valley Oral History Collection, SdArch 29

  • This collection contains 20 individually cataloged interviews, most of which are available as mp3s which you can listen to from your computer workstation! Search for your particular topic in LEO (described below), or click on the collection title above.

  • Christopher B. Martin Oral History Collection, SdArch 31

 

How do I conduct an Oral History interview?

 

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