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Anna Żeglińska - Oral history
as archive sources
Oral history is of interest to various cultural
institutions - museums, libraries, archives, research
institutes.
Depending on these institutions' activity profiles, oral
history are treated differently and take different places
in
their collections and holdings. Since many documents about
the life and activity of the Polish society went missing
as
a result of the Second World War and the post-war
political system (censorship, destruction of
'inconvenient' files),
oral history can be a valuable supplementary source.
Despite constant development of technology and
increasingly
sophisticated methods of sound and image recording, oral
testimonies are considered only supplementary material,
not
of equal value to other collected sources. The existing
resources all need to be arranged and classified, and
exchange
of information and experience, not only within a single
archival network but amongst all interested institutions,
should be made possible. The purpose of this article is to
put together a list of problems related to oral
testimonies
in all the archives which collect or may collect them.
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