All proposed oral history projects intended for donation to Mudd Library should be discussed well in advance by emailing scoh@princeton.edu. A staff member will contact you for a meeting to discuss your project’s scope, release forms, recording audio, transcription, transferring the files, and to answer any questions you may have about the process.
Transcriptions of the audio (or in some cases video) are a requirement for any oral history project given to the Mudd Manuscript Library, in order to provide access to researchers. Please make sure that all file names (audio/visual and transcripts) include the name of the interviewee. For example, Smith_John.wav and Smith_John.pdf, if an interview is divided into several parts, Smith_Jordan_part_1.mp3, Smith_Jordan_part_2.mp3 with one transcript file for interviews.