Storm Stories: Oral history and best practices
<div class="migrated-article"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2200" src="/sites/default/files/featured_images/OHR.jpg" alt width="100%" data-align="center">Jennifer Abraham Cramer, Director of the <a href="https://lib.lsu.edu/special/williams/" target="_blank">T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History</a>, is quoted in today's <em>Oral History Review</em> blog post, "<a href="https://blog.oup.com/2012/12/oral-history-in-disaster-zones/" target="_blank">Oral History in Disaster Zones</a>." The post's author, Caitlin Tyler-Richards, encourages anyone considering conducting oral history after a natural disaster to take Cramer's advice, and "print [it] out and tape to their walls." Cramer advocates for those conducting oral history projects to follow the Oral History Association's <a href="https://oralhistory.org/about/principles-and-practices-revised-2009/&qu…; target="_blank">principles and best practices</a> to ensure the creation of high-quality primary sources while being sensitive to interviewees as they make sense of their experiences, particularly those that are recent and potentially traumatic.
Cramer serves as the Media and Non-Print Review Editor of <em>The Oral History Review</em>. She can be reached at LSU Libraries' Special Collections via phone at (225) 578-7439 and by email at <a href="mailto:jabrah1@lsu.edu">jabrah1@lsu.edu</a>.
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