香港经验分享——口述历史档案库的创建兼论图书馆的角色

Hong Kong Experience——the Construction of Oral History Archives and the Roles of Libraries

文章首先回顾了香港口述历史档案几个项目的组成、构造和开放使用的模式,然后就图书馆在参与口述历史的角色表达意见。香港口述历史档案几个项目的性质各异,有大学图书馆管理的档案库、机构内部档案库和网上档案库,口述历史研究机构与图书馆或档案馆,各有相应的合作方式。笔者认为图书馆在参与口述历史这个课题上,应从口述历史的意义和质素保证这两个方向去思考,口述历史的意义是"让市民生活走进大众的视野",图书馆比任何机构都有优势;从质素保证而言,研究机构可就选题、访谈内容、信息管理等方面发挥优势,故此最理想的方式是图书馆与研究机构合作,互相配合。

The author has provided an overview of several oral history archive projects in Hong Kong, and offered her comments on the role libraries may perform in promoting oral history. These archives are different in nature and format, such as an archive managed by the university library, corporate archives of two institutions for internal studies only, and a web-based archive of oral histories. The library and the archive ofifces involved have respective roles to play due to the differences in the information management system of the archives. The author suggests that libraries may deifne their roles in doing oral history from two directions： the mission of oral history and quality assurance. Oral history is to let ordinary lives be more visible in the public history. Libraries are good at meeting the public, while research institutes are professional in doing oral history. The best model will be for a library to work with a research institute in the design and implementation of oral history projects, with the library taking more role in reaching out and allowing accessibility of oral history records to the public.