ABSTRACT
Once the project has been completed, the first priority is to announce it. One could do this in a number of ways—having an official 'opening' of the collection and announcing it in press releases, hosting an event, or creating an exhibit based on the oral histories. It is essential that narrators, interviewers, and project volunteers be publicly acknowledged. If the project is well designed, executed and presented, its value will be self-evident to funders, potential researchers and other stakeholders. Once the oral history project is finished, interviews should be made available to the local and scholarly community for research and general enjoyment. Most archives have a reading room where users can read/view/listen to the interviews in the archives. There are multiple options for making oral histories available online via streaming audio and/or video. Some are relatively inexpensive, while others may be prohibitively expensive, depending on their situation.
