Coffs Harbour's Voice of Time Online
Project Summary
The 'Voice of Time Online' is the result of a digitisation project by Coffs Harbour City Library. The project makes available 150 interviews (over 160 hours) from the ‘Voice of Time’ Coffs Harbour Oral History Project, originally produced for the 1988 Australian Bicentenary, in electronic format online. The Library’s web catalogue provides access to the full interview summaries, along with copies of photographs of interviewees and selected audio snippets in MP3 format. The full interview recordings in CD format are available at the Library. The digitisation project provides for much improved access and preservation of this valuable heritage collection.
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Screenshot of the Voice of Time Online web catalogue and MP3 playback
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Interview recordings converted to CD format: public access CD, preservation/master CD, and MP3 version CD.
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Closeup screenshot showing users how to access the full interview record online and how to access the online MP3 audio snippet on each interview
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Photograph of the Voice of Time Online display at Coffs Harbour City Library
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Audio
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Audio snippet from an interview with Mrs Jessie Tulk and her daughter Mercedes Sauerstein - Mr Tulk was a lighthouse keeper on Solitary Island. Summary: The Kero tin adventure across the cutting. Her father's wonderful find on the other island -- The evenings when the whales would come to the island -- Climbing across the rocks to go fishing in the afternoon. Fun with the Billy Cart.
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Audio snippet from an Interview with Albert and Ivy Lewis - Albert was a timber-getter born in 1904. Summary: 200 sleepers cut out of one tree -- Camp site. Fire outside positioned so it kept the inside warm -- "You could come and go as you liked".
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