Abstract

The chief complaint among oral historians today consists of the lack of money to employ qualified transcribers. On the other hand, once money is obtained, the problem remains of how to make decisions regarding the transcript itself. Recently the State Historical Society of Wisconsin expressed this dilemma in a report on its oral history project on the Textile Workers Union of America: After three and a half hours had been transcribed it became evident that there are really no upon procedures for auditing and editing oral history transcripts.' Here the key phrase is agreed upon. For in oral history manuals transcribing parameters are either vague or

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