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Project Jukebox: developing a digital oral history repository of the Exxon Valdez Disaster P R I N C E W I L L I A M S O U N D R E G I O N A L C I T I Z E N ’ S A D V I S O R Y C O U N C I L B O A R D O F D I R E C T O R S M E E T I N G J A N U A R Y 2 3 - 2 4 , 2 0 1 4 A N C H O R A G E A L A S K A Part 1 Alicia Zorzetto Digital Collections Librarian alicia.zorzetto@pwsrcac.org

What is Oral History? “Oral history is the translation of history into experience.” – Richard Candida Smith

What is Oral History?  Narrator  Interviewer  Transcriber  Preserver (libraries and archives)  Retriever  research  excerpts  documentaries  museum exhibits  public plays  legal testimonies

Why is Oral History Important? Oil strike Hazelwood’s Pipeline 25 th anniversary at Prudhoe Tanker risk criminal case complete Of EVOS OPA90 Bay assessment ends begins 1975 1985 1995 2005 2015 spill 2000 1980 2010 1970 1990 Air quality equipment installed at VMT formation Trans-Alaska $5billion U.S. Supreme Court of RCACs Pipeline Auth. Act awarded in caps punitive & SERVS damages damages at $507.5 million

Why is Oral History Important?  Social history  Reflective  Changes the focus  Provides Depth  Democratic  Bridges generational gap

Project Jukebox: Exxon Valdez  Alaska State Library Interlibrary Cooperation Grant  $20,000 (conditional)  ARLIS materials  Credit the Alaska State Library Institute of Museum and Library Services

Project Jukebox: Exxon Valdez  PWSRCAC  $10,000 and one project manager (Digital Collections Librarian)  Audio recordings from “The Spill: Personal Stories from the Exxon Valdez Disaster” by Sharon Bushell and Stan Jones  Newly created recordings  Transcriptions (externally contracted)

Project Jukebox: Exxon Valdez  University of Alaska Fairbanks  Archive and catalog with the Alaska Polar Regions Collections and Archives at UAF  Create freely accessible Project Jukebox website with 20 recordings (audio/video)  Catalog within WorldCat (www.worldcat.org)

Why is the UAF library so important?  Mission:  Center for research and education  Circumpolar North and its diverse peoples  Integrate teaching, research, and public service  Active citizenship  Creation, acquisition, preservation and dissemination of information resources.  Legitimacy  Digital Preservation

Themes  Fishermen  Litigation  Native perspective  Clean-up  Wildlife  Recovery  PWSRCAC founders  Prevention  Children of the spill  Industry  Mental Health  Environmental  PWS Communities Toxicology

Committed Narrators  Rick Steiner  Jonathan Wills  Tom Copeland  Joe Banta  Marilyn Leland  Dave Janka  Bob Linville  Gordon Scott  John Devens Sr.  Katie Gavenus  Gary Bader  Patience A. Faulkner  Craig Matkin  John Devens Jr.  Scott Sterling  ARLIS videos  Jerome Selby

Challenges  Technological compatibility/ library standards  Native perspective  Female perspective  Domestic and social experiences  Rights of the Narrator  Original intent of audio recordings  Stan Stephens

Thank you! For More information visit: www.jukebox.uaf.edu Questions? Comments? Alicia Zorzetto Digital Collections Librarian Prince William Sound RCAC alicia.zorzetto@pwsrcac.org 907-273-6228