University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill Library, in collaboration with the Southern Oral History Program, the Center for the Study of the American South, the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Education, and ibiblio (a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies) will digitize and make available on the Web 500 oral history interviews that offer unique, personal insights into civil rights, women's rights, politics, and environmental issues. Beyond offering digitized audio and transcripts of these materials, the project will develop a new, freely available, platform-independent approach for the simultaneous presentation of audio files linked to transcripts. The project will also develop standards-based curriculum materials for teachers and students, as well as reusable learning objects for a range of class levels.