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Proposed Changes in OHMAR’s Constitution and By-Laws
Below are several changes the Board has proposed we make in our Constitution and By-Laws. As required by the Constitution, the membership will be asked to vote on these changes in the near future. Please review them below so that you will be prepared to cast your vote. Throughout the OHMAR Constitution and By-Laws: Add […]
Revised Constitution and Bylaws
OHMAR’s constitution and bylaws have recently been updated. The update is part of OHMAR’s Strategic Plan. Read the OHMAR Constitution and By Laws – Winter 2015 OHMAR members are encouraged to review the Constitution and bylaws and submit feedback. A discussion will occur at the business meeting at the 2015 OHMAR conference. Read the OHMAR Constitution […]
Call for Proposals: OHMAR Annual Meeting 2015
April 9-10, 2015 Rutgers University-Camden Campus Deadline for Submissions: January 5, 2015 Extended to January 30, 2015 OHMAR is delighted to accept proposals for its 2015 annual meeting around this year’s theme,“Oral History and Health.†OHMAR invites participants to interpret the conference theme broadly. Some ideas are below. The topics are meant to inspire creativity and broad […]
Regional Oral Histories and Strategic Planning: An #OHA2014 Recap
How do regional oral history organizations plan for success — and what roles can they play for oral historians and the national organization? This was the subject of our lively and engaging panel at #OHA2014. Chaired by OHMAR Board Member LuAnn Jones, Jason Steinhauer and Anne Rush of OHMAR — who both worked on OHMAR’s 2015 […]
Re-thinking the Role of the Regional Oral History Organization
This post by OHMAR Board member Jason Steinhauer originally appeared on the Oxford University Press blog on July 25, 2014. Read it here. What is the role of a regional oral history organization? The Board of Officers of Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region (OHMAR) recently wrestled with this question over the course of a year-long strategic planning […]
Innovations in Oral History – NYPL Labs
In a recent interview by The Library As Incubator Project, Ben Vershbow and David Riordan of NYPL Labs discussed an oral history pilot program launched by the lab in conjunction with the New York Public Library’s local branches. The pilot program tackles the challenges of ingesting born-digital materials as well as connecting oral histories to other collections held by the […]
“Funeral for a Home” featured on NPR
“Funeral for a Home†is one of the more unique oral history projects in the mid-Atlantic region. The project teams artists with oral historians to document the lives of all the families that lived in a single home over the course of its existence, and then commemorate the home with a funeral before it’s demolished. The […]
OHMAR Presents 2014 Forrest Pogue Award to Judith Knudsen of Arlington, VA
OHMAR (Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region) presented its annual Forrest Pogue award to Judith Knudsen at our spring annual meeting, held on April 24 and 25 at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia. The Pogue award recognizes lifetime achievement in the field of oral history. It is named after Forrest C. Pogue, an oral […]
Call for Papers | OHMAR Conference
Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region (OHMAR) announces CALL FOR PAPERS and PRESENTATIONS “How do we choose? The stories we collect, the ones we don’t.†OHMAR announces a conference to be held on April 24th and 25th, 2014, at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The program committee invites participants to submit papers that broadly […]