Save a story of someone you love or a history you would love to know.

Learn how to capture an oral history project on audio and video from start to finish, with hands-on practice on a digital audio recorder.

• Choose your narrator and your goals

• Prepare questions

• Master effective interview techniques

• Protect your narrator's right to privacy and dignity

• Know production methods and equipment to record, preserve, and share your interviews

• Review oral history interviews of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, and Marylander civil rights activist Gloria Richardson.

• Practice interviewing other participants using a Pratt Oral History Digital Audio Kit*

                * Pratt Oral History Kits are available to Maryland state residents with a Pratt Library card. To learn more, contact Debra Elfenbein, Social Science & History Dept, delfenbein@prattlibrary.org.