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We send
copies of the archive to our depository libraries and various transcription and
journalistic research projects. Please contact us if you would like to
access something in the archive.
Latest Recordings
Acquired are being gathered over
here. If you are interested in
helping to maintain the archive catalog, please contact us at
info@sfoha.org.
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SFOHA Catalog Online
The 1998 version of the SFOHA Archive Catalog is online
here.
It is organized mainly by Series, which were often focused on the
person recording, or somesuch. We are working on getting a fully
searchable database set up.
We do not have
permission to distribute all of these recordings, but many of them are
already present at deposit collections at University Libraries in
Michigan, Kansas, and New Mexico. We are currently working with
librarians at those locations to confirm what their holdings are and
how the public can access them.
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Volunteering
SFOHA enthusiastically welcomes volunteers both near and far who would
like to help by recording audio and/or video material for our archives.
To aid you in this purpose, we are now providing a release form (44kb MS Word).
SFOHA can provide the best distribution and access to our archive
material if the people who appear or are heard can be persuaded to fill
out this form specifying what rights they release to us. There is also
a membership form on the back.
SFOHA
welcomes contributions to
the archives from personal collections. Please make sure each recording
donated to SFOHA is clearly labeled with the date of the recording, the
location or event of the recording, and, when possible, the subject and
the people present in the recording. It's also good to let us know who
made the recording, using what equipment. Additional descriptive
material about the recordings will be entered into our catalog if
included; if the recording came form a convention, it would be handy
for us if you would just include a copy of the pocket and/or program
book of the convention itself. Contributions to the archives should be
sent to SFOHA c/o Chad Childers, 41820 Glen Arbor St. Canton MI, MI
48188-2602.
We also invite people to
start their own chapters of SFOHA. (more info.)
Call for volunteers for
Worldcon
We are seeking volunteers to help record events at any future Worldcon, NASFiC, national, or major regional convention.
Please join the SFOHA Talk mailing list below if you are interested in helping.
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Membership
Membership in SFOHA costs $5 per year. Alternatively, an active
membership is available to anyone who dontates 3 or more recordings
that SFOHA does not have already to our archive. Clubs can also join
SFOHA.
A membership subscription can be sent
(payable to SFOHA) to:
SFOHA
41820 GLEN ARBOR ST
CANTON MI 48188-2602
Or you can make donations or pay a membership online through paypal by
clicking on the button below.
We would like to recognize Janet Asimov for her financial support and honor her late husband, the inimitable polymath.
Past Newsletters Include
A handbook called the SFOHA Interviewing Guide is also
available to
members by request.
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There
is a discussion list for those who are interested in Science Fiction
Oral History. It is called SFOHA Talk. This is an open subscription
list. To subscribe, send an email to talk-request@sfoha.org
with "subscribe" in the body of the message. Standard Majordomo list
requests can be sent to the talk-request@sfoha.org address (subscribe,
unsubscribe, help, who, etc.).
To post messages to the
list you send them to talk@sfoha.org.
We also have a Facebook Page for discussion of science fiction oral history and SFOHA.
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Board of Directors
Acting President:
Mike Gardiner
Treasurer: Chad Childers
Secretary: TBD
Director at Large: Joel Zakem
Director at Large: Anne Gray
Past President: Rick Jackson
The Board operates under the following Bylaws
(last revised in 2004).
Upcoming
Board Meetings:
Please see our Google Calendar
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Contacting SFOHA
email: info@sfoha.org
Mail:
SFOHA
41820 GLEN ARBOR ST
CANTON MI 48188-2602
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