THE ORAL HISTORY OF BULACAN PUBLIC LIBRARIES PROJECT

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Oral History of Bulacan Public Libraries FULL PAPER

This project was designed to gather the oral history of the Bulacan public libraries before they are lost forever. Recording these public libraries' history, or even just a part of it such as their oral history, is essential  so that the important roles they have played in the community where they are located will be highlighted, appreciated, and preserved. 

In this project, oral history refers to a living person's memories and testimonies about their experiences. Unfortunately, oral history's survival is as long, or as short,  as the life of its possessor making it imperative for them to be gathered as early as possible.

PROJECT OBJECTIVES

1. To ensure that a part of oral history of Bulacan public libraries will be gathered and not be forever lost.

2. To create a veritable source materials for future researchers of the history of Bulacan public libraries.

3. To record and process all the gathered oral history of Bulacan public libraries and make it accessible to the general public.

PROJECT OUTPUT

1. The oral history themselves contained in DVDs.

2. Complete transcription of each individual interviews/oral history.

3. This blogsite presenting the processed form of the interviews.

Outputs 1 and 2 is stored and accessible at the Bulacan Provincial Library. Output 3 is this blogsite you are reading now. 

METHOD

This project primarily used the method employed in oral history: the Interview Method.

TARGET LOCALITIES

All the provincial, city and municipal libraries of Bulacan as follows:

Bulacan Provincial Library

Baliwag Municipal Library and Museum

Bustos Municipal Library

Guiguinto Municipal Library

Hagonoy Municipal Library

City of Meycauayan Library and Mini-Heritage Museum
Plaridel Municipal Library

Pulilan Municipal Library

San Ildefonso Municipal Library

San Miguel Municipal Library

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Oral History of Bulacan Public Libraries FULL PAPER

To listen to the author's whole interview with the different present and former Bulacan public libraries head, you may go to the Bulacan Provincial Library and ask the librarian there about the ORAL HISTORY OF BULACAN PUBLIC LIBRARIES PROJECT. Transcript of all the interviews are also available on site.

(Note: Each of the articles is based on the interviews during the conduct of this oral history project. Only important things related to the history of the public libraries were included in the articles, and some personal matters, doubtful claims, and unverifiable information were left out.)