Share your Flood Story

From: Nancy L. Baker, University Librarian [mailto:lib-friends@uiowa.edu]Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 11:11 AMSubject: [DeptInfo] Share Your Flood StoryOn Friday, June 13 when people from around the community came to the Main Library to help us move books and other materials out of the lower-level storage areas, I started thinking of ways that we could repay their kindness and dedication to the library.We decided that the best "thank you" would be developing a collection of flood-related materials that could involve community members. "Under the Current: Collecting Stories from the Flood" is a community-oriented oral history project in partnership with StoryCorps. You may have heard some StoryCorps interviews on NPR.StoryCorps is a national project to instruct and inspire Americans to record one another's stories in sound. These recorded interviews will be archived in the Iowa Digital Library as well as the Library of Congress.StoryCorps facilitators will be on campus to record interviews on Tuesday, September 30; Wednesday, October 1 and Thursday, October 2.In addition to the StoryCorps visit, we have organized three additional days of local story collecting. Students from Assistant Professor Nanette Barkey's Applied Anthropology class will be acting as facilitators for these additional interviews. These interviews will take place at the Iowa City Public Library on Tuesday, October 7 and Thursday, October 9, and the Coralville Public Library on Saturday, October 11.We are very excited about this collaborative project. If you want to learn more about the project or register to tell your story, you can check out the website www.lib.uiowa.edu/events/floodstories.Nancy L. Baker, University Librarian