ABSTRACT
Oral historians often worry that transcripts will dissuade researchers from listening to audio, which is the primary source. This chapter examines when and why researchers prefer transcripts, and when audio is more useful. It looks at who uses oral history in their research, how they find and access interviews, how they organize them when working on a long project, such as a book, and proper oral history citations. This chapter explores the difference between using your own research and somebody else’s. It peeks into how museum curators mine oral history when creating exhibits. This chapter also looks at how social scientists use manual and computer coding for interviews, and how this might apply to oral historians.
