Oral History Initiative
Thanks to extensive volunteer support, Calvert Library is collecting accessible oral histories from our community.
Accessible?
Many oral histories have been collected by a wide variety of organizations and individuals in Calvert County. Calvert Library’s goal is to begin the process of making oral histories digital, transcribed, searchable and cataloged so that our students and researchers will be able to use the content.
For those with appropriate permissions, those digital files will be housed at Digital Maryland, a collaborative, statewide digitization program headquartered at the Enoch Pratt Free Library/State Library Resource Center in Baltimore. Their collection is also searched by those using the Digital Public Library of America so our histories will be widely available.
Oral Histories?
At this time, we are looking for conversations about:
- Calvert Library and Bookmobile memories
- How people have transformed or contributed to Calvert County
Help?
To do this, we need lots of volunteers to help facilitate interviews, transcribe, review and tag/catalog the oral histories.
The volunteer positions we are looking to fill are:
Oral History Interview Coordinator: Facilitate the collection of Calvert County history through oral history interviews.
Oral History Transcriptionist: Facilitate high quality and accessible Calvert County oral history interviews.
Oral History Reviewer: Facilitate high quality and accessible Calvert County oral history interviews.