Oral History and Sound Heritage – LSG Conference 2018 – tickets still available!

LSG Conference 2018: Oral History and Sound Heritage

Date: 9/7/2018

Time: 10:00 – 16:30

Venue: University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH

Description:

This year’s CILIP Local Studies Group conference is all about oral history. Hosted by the University of Leicester Library, our conference is for anyone involved in collecting oral history and managing collections, or who would like to work in this area in the future. The program is designed to help you keep up to date with best practice, find out about new initiatives, and meet other people in this field.

Programme:

• Introducing Unlocking Our Sound Heritage – Sue Davies, British Library
• Running an oral history project – Colin Hyde, East Midlands Oral History Archive
• Tour of the Library’s Special Collections & Sound Heritage project facilities
• Oral history and communities – Stephanie Nield, Leonard Cheshire Archive & Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre, University of Manchester.
• Cataloguing oral history and sound collections.

As part of the event, we will be inviting interest in a local studies network for librarians, archivists and heritage professionals in the Midlands.

To book tickets, please go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lsg-conference-2018-oral-history-and-sound-heritage-tickets-44260327832

For further information, please email William Farrell: wjbf1@le.ac.uk