The next free webinar hosted by ALA ACRL’s EBSS Education Committee will occur at 12:30pm EST on Friday May 8. The webinar features UC Berkeley Social Sciences librarian Ann Glusker, who will discuss developing an oral history collection about changes in librarianship over the decades. The webinar will be held at http://csulb.zoom.us/j/5629854509 No registration is required.
Ann Glusker is a Social Sciences librarian at University of California, Berkeley, and also is Berkeley’s librarian for Research Methods. After many years as a quantitative researcher, she learned to do qualitative research at Berkeley, but wanted a process that was more collaborative with the people being interviewed, and shifted to doing oral histories. The collection of oral histories she just released, “Librarians Navigating Change”, includes 15 transcripts of interviews with long-time UC Berkeley librarians, focusing on changes in libraries, and particularly librarianship, over the past 40 years. The collection contains almost 400 pages of transcripts, with narrators from a range of roles and services in this complex academic library setting. There are also some fantastic stories!
Dr. Lesley S. J. Farmer
CSU ICT Literacy Project Manager
Truth is a human right.