The Re: Collections project is looking for volunteers!
Would you like to help preserve the memories of your community? Do you enjoy local history and talking to people? If you do, you may be able to help us with this exciting new project.
We are working to preserve the recollections of your community to provide a resource for local and family history and to help those in your area living with dementia. Although the Libraries and Archives service does have a lot of information about the past in our local area, we need more images and accounts of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
We will be asking people in your community to share their photographs and memories at your community Library. There will be a dedicated week here during which local people will be asked to bring in photographs and be interviewed for the oral history project. As part of that week, there will be a ‘drop in’ day with refreshments where people will be encouraged to come to the Library for reminiscence sessions and to have their memories recorded. We are hoping that local and family history groups and any reminiscence groups will want to be involved with the project.
The aim of the project is to create a resource that will be available at this Library branch for local people to use. There will be a ‘Memory Box’ of facsimiles of all of the photographs donated to the project plus other items from the Archives that can be used by anyone who wishes to in the Library for reminiscence work or local history study. The oral history interviews will also be available at the Library along with transcripts for those who prefer to access them in this way. There will be a website with a section for each local area where the images will be posted and where people will be encouraged to upload their images and memories to continue to create an archive of people’s experiences in this area for the future.
Timetables 2016
August-September
- Meeting with CLO’s to outline our project
- Training in oral history interviewing and copyright for staff/volunteers.
- Initial steps taken to advertise project in all Libraries and in local newspapers.
- Groups contacted to arrange oral history recordings
- Volunteers contacted and established to help with drop in sessions.
September/October – December
- Drop in sessions held at every Library.
- Material collected with metadata added to database
- Oral history interviews conducted by Archives/Libraries/Volunteers
Timetable – 2017
January – February
- Drop sessions held at every Library
- Material Collected
- Oral history interviews conducted by Archives/Libraries/Volunteers
March – April
- Memory boxes created at each library from material collected
- Website/blog created and content begins to be uploaded
- Permanent reminiscence groups established at each library
- Metadata added to database
May
- Launch of website for Dementia awareness week
We need people to assist Library and Archives staff with the scanning of photographs at the Library and to interview people in their community about their memories. Training will be given and volunteers will be supported by staff at all times.
If you are interested in being a part of the project and want to know more, please speak to your Library staff at this branch or contact the Council Archives at the following address:
Stirling Council Archives
5 Borrowmeadow Road
Springkerse Estate
Stirling
FK7 7UW
Tel: 01786 450745
To register your interest please email Stirling Council Archives