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New South Voices provides access to over 600 audio recordings and transcripts of interviews, narratives and conversations collected by UNC Charlotte faculty and students and several community organizations. These intereviews are part of the Oral History Collection housed in the Special Collections unit of Atkins Library at UNC Charlotte. New South Voices has received $48,680 in grant funds from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the NC Department of Cultural Resources and 10% in matching funds from UNC Charlotte to enhance the oral history database. The grant will allow Special Collections to add digitized transcripts and audio of more than 200 oral history interviews related to Civil Rights, Education, the African-American experience, and the Native American experience in North Carolina to the publicly available database, which already contains some 600 interviews. Additionally, to provide further historical context for the interviews, supplemental material from manuscript collections will be digitized and integrated into lesson plans designed by Middle and High School social studies teachers as part of a two week hands-on institute to utilize oral history materials in the classroom. Please note that media files may not be available for all transcripts. As a pilot project, we are happy to share information about our technology choices and digitization issues and we welcome and encourage questions, suggestions and feedback. NSV - Related Links
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New South Voices and Language Analysis