Oral History Workshop

Date: Thursday, January 28, 2010

Location: MDI Historical Society, Sound Drive, Mount Desert

Time: 1:00-4:00 pm

Description: Acadia Senior College and The Mount Desert Island Historical Society will offer a workshop on the techniques of doing oral histories on Thursday, January 28. Scheduled from 1:00 to 4:00 pm, the workshop will be held in The Old School House at 373 Sound Drive.

Please note that you should sign up with the MDI Historical Society at 276-9323.

This program is open to the public. Reservations are required, and the cost is $10.

Archivist Pamela Dean, formerly with the University of Maine’s Folklife Center, will discuss how to prepare for an oral history interview, frame good
questions, and put the person being interviewed at ease. She will also give tips on techniques that ensure that information gained in an interview will
be useful and accessible to researchers.

Filmmaker Charles Richardson will demonstrate how camcorders can be used to create a permanent visual record of the interview. There will also be discussion of the uses of digital and cassette recorders.

Reservations may be made by calling the MDI Historical Society at 276-9323.

The Magic of Google Book Search, with Charlotte Morrill

Date: May 20, 2008

Location: Southwest Harbor Public Library

Time: 7:00 pm

Description: This is not strictly a workshop, but seems a natural next step in the "libraries of the future discussion," that started with a winter Lunch and Learn.

Join Charlotte Morrill for a demonstration of Google Book Search and an informal discussion of what the library of the future, as demonstrated by Google, will offer. There are amazing things to
be found even now, and the good news is that it's easy to do as Google opens up the world of books and their content. This event is free and open to the public, with no reservations needed.