{"id":1570,"date":"2014-05-09T13:34:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T17:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research.prattsils.org\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2014-05-09T13:34:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T17:34:34","slug":"outreach-at-the-brooklyn-public-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/2014\/outreach-at-the-brooklyn-public-library","title":{"rendered":"Oral Histories: Veterans and Outreach at the Brooklyn Public Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2000, the United States Congress passed legislation to create the Veterans History Project.\u00a0 This archive &#8211; kept at the American Folklife Center in Washington D.C. &#8211; aims to collect, preserve and make accessible &#8220;the personal accounts of American war veterans so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Robert Weinstein&#8217;s presentation deals with the process of creating a Veterans Oral History archive for the Brooklyn Public Library.\u00a0 It recounts the social challenges in collecting oral histories and addresses the technical difficulties in presenting them on the library&#8217;s existing website.\u00a0\u00a0 And it ends with an exploration of the cultural, communal and educational benefits of collecting and utilizing oral histories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2000, the United States Congress passed legislation to create the Veterans History Project.\u00a0 This archive &#8211; kept at the American Folklife Center in Washington D.C. &#8211; aims&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[108],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-128","tag-outreach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}