Elementos de identidad
Nombre y localización del repositorio
Nivel de descripción
Colección
Título
StoryCorps - Warmamas community archive
Fecha(s)
- 2013-2015 (Creación)
Extensión
67 Items
Nombre del productor
Historia administrativa
The StoryCorps oral histories project began in 2003 as an effort to “provide people of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share and preserve the stories of our lives.” As of 2015, the project has recorded more than 50,000 interviews with more than 90,000 participants. The work of StoryCorps provides an “invaluable archive for future generations,” and is housed at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
The StoryCorps-Warmamas Community Archive (2013-2015) is a collection of interviews with enlisted men and women, veterans, their family and friends. The collaboration between StoryCorps and Warmamasis part of StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative which serves as a platform to allow military families to share their experiences. Warmamas also places a special emphasis on interviewing women whose children were deployed to serve in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. As a repository for personal reflections on the ramifications of war, the collection includes individual testimonies and helps to document American history.
Sistema de arreglo
This collection is arranged by interviewee.
Condiciones de acceso y uso de los elementos
Condiciones de acceso
This collection is available for viewing on-site from the Special Collection's reading room and from the University of Miami Richter Library. Please contact Special Collections the following phone number: 305-284-3580 or email: asc.library@miami.edu to listen to the interviews. Special Collections is located at the Otto G. Richter Library on the Coral Gables campus of the University of Miami at 1300 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, Florida 33124.
Acceso físico
Acceso técnico
Condiciones
Courtesy of StoryCorps, a national nonprofit dedicated to recording and collecting stories of everyday people. Any other uses of this material--for commercial or non-commercial distribution, editing, exhibition, publishing, publicly performing, publicly displaying, reproducing on a website, or quotation beyond "fair use"--requires the permission of StoryCorps. For clearance, please contact StoryCorps at http://storycorps.org/about/inquiries/.
Idiomas del material
- inglés
- español
Escritura(s) de los documentos
Notas sobre las lenguas y escrituras
Instrumentos de descripción
instrumento de descripción generado
Elementos de adquisición y valoración
Historial de custodia
Origen del ingreso
Gift of Patricia Sowers and StoryCorps, 2015.
Valoración, selección y eliminación
Acumulaciones
Elementos de material relacionado
Existencia y localización de originales
Existencia y localización de copias
Unidades de descripción relacionadas.
Caribbean Diaspora Oral History Collection - Patricia Sowers, Director/Founder, Warmamas.
StoryCorps Historias Interviews Collection, 2009-2010
StoryCorps Military Voices Initiative
StoryCorps Historias Digital Collection
Information about related materials is available at http://www.warmamas.com/
Digitized materials may be accessed through the University of Miami Digital Collections site:
https://digitalcollections.library.miami.edu/digital/collection/asm0700