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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards Columbia Grant to Preserve Oral History Recordings
Columbia University Libraries will receive $371,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a two-year project to preserve 820 recordings containing almost 1200 hours of sound. The audiotapes are part of the Oral History Research Office’s collection of recorded interviews and memoirs, and have been selected because they are among the most important and the most threatened by imminent deterioration due to the inherent fragility of the media.
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AG Foundation Grant Funds Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts
Agnes Gund, one of New York’s most generous patrons of the arts, has given the Columbia University Oral History Research Office a grant to record an oral history of women in the visual arts. The project will be named “The Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts” in honor of the recently deceased celebrated painter and printmaker.
Through the two-year project, the Oral History Research Office will conduct life and career histories of twenty women artists, collectors and curators whose contributions have impacted the art world in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The interviews will be made available to the public through the Columbia University Libraries, as well as through deposit in museum and arts-based archives.
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Oral History Master of Arts Launched
 In fall 2008, students in the nation's first master's degree program in oral history will begin their first semester at Columbia University. A partnership between ISERP and Oral History Research Office (OHRO) at the Columbia University Libraries, Oral History Master of Arts (OHMA) is an interdisciplinary program that links social science and humanities research and focuses on interviewing methodologies and interpretive methods. More details can be found here.
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