The use/value of an oral history archive department in modern Libraries

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The value of an oral history archive in modern libraries

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The main purpose of this is to discuss the use or value of an oral history archive department in modern libraries especially British libraries and American ones . It has been realized or discovered that the oral history archive can be used to explain the concept or idea of windowing time in digital libraries . Of late digital and oral history archive libraries carry a variety of useful information and documents that include

the past and present ones . This therefore tries to view the use or value of this kind of sound archive in which it is divided into four main categories or subsections

The first section is the introductory part that tries to give a brief explanation about the oral history archive . There is a problem in question or objective , which touches on what is to be investigated that is the use of this archive . The hypotheses are also constructed to provide answers to the objectives of the research . The other areas include research design methodology and conclusion

Introduction

Many scholars have found out that Oral history archive libraries can be used to obtain information as fast as possible . According to Portelli (1998 , the archive holds several hours of gramophone , films , audio video and CDs . The oral history archive has been of great help in various departments for instance information has been obtained through what is called oral debriefing . This is a situation whereby a comprehensive and condensed verbal testimony is obtained from individuals (Medical Tribune , 2007

Other areas where the oral history archive has been applied include areas such as psychology , witness interrogation in criminal investigations , which occur in both oral and visual formats (Sangster 1998 .The archive tentatively is currently being used to help in knowledge management especially when it comes to labour market . This is an area in commerce and industry where the changing labour market requires employees to shift from one position to another or from one job to another . As this happens there is loss of organizational memory , the so called the body of data and knowledge which is relevant to an individual organization 's existence (Perk and Thomson , 1998 and Gregory 1991 . These therefore are of the uses of oral history archive that make it become recognized as a powerful device or tool especially in Britain to capture the already existing institutional knowledge and information

Learning has been enhanced by the use of Oral history archive . The new curriculum requires students to have sound and good communication skills that prepare them to answers questions either during interviews as they look for jobs after schooling or in classroom (Rolph , 1998 .Criminal investigation department also employ the use Oral history archive when they are interrogating criminals

Statement of the problem

In this section , the discusses the problem in question or the objective of carrying out the research . Oral history archive has been viewed as a unique and powerful...