Books
Online Resources
Oral History Principles and Best Practices
From the Oral History Association
Oral history in the Digital Age
Connects you to the latest information on digital technology as it pertains to all phases of the oral history process.
An extensive, helpful guide from the Columbia University Center for Oral History. Includes resources for methodology, generally, as well as lists of texts based on oral historical projects, organized by topic (e.g., human rights, body narratives, psychology & trauma, women's and gender studies)
Step-By-Step Guide to Oral History
From the Film Study Center, Harvard University & the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University
Interviewing
Interviewing Guidelines-UCLA Library Center for Oral History Research
Includes tips for conducting and recording interviews
Interview Tips- Regional Oral History Office
Set of tips for interviewers from ROHO at the University of California Berkeley
Transcribing
Transcribing Style Guide-Baylor University
Style guide for editing transcription
Indexing & Transcribing Your Interviews
Guidelines and tips from the Veterans' History Project, Library of Congress
ca. 1970s
Oral History, Human Subjects & Institutional Review Boards
Oral History: Ethical and Legal Issues
This set of resources isn't comprehensive -- there are multitudes of oral histories online! -- but these are good places to explore, as you help develop out your own project.
Haverford College Oral Histories
New York Public Library Community Oral History Project
Digital Research Tools for Transcription
Haverford College IITS Audio Visual Services