Training Workshops for Official Partners

The Veterans History Project is engage in an ongoing collaboration with the American Folklore Society to provide a naional network of professional Oral Historians and Folklorists for workshop leaders.

These workshops, which are designed to increase participants' understanding of the personal aspects of oral history interviewing and the technical aspects of audio and video documentation, as well as the specifics of VHP guidelines so that interviews may be included in the archives at the Library of Congress. Workshops usually run for two and a half to three hours and will use Veterans History Project-developed instructional materials for interviewers as a basic text and guide. Partners who request, receive and host workshops provide the venue, and the participants. Typically workshops can accomodate between 20 and 60 particpants.

More information on:

• American Folklore Society
• Oral History Association