Akbariani suggests Samples of Iranian People’s Stories

Mohammad-Hashem Akbariani, writer and journalist, suggests the book “Samples of Iranian People’s Stories” for reading during the holidays. The book was compiled by Afshin Naderi in 2004 and published by Qesseh Publications sponsored by ICHTO. IBNA: Sponsored by Iran Cultural Heritage, Handcrafts and Tourism Organization, the book “Samples of Iranian People’s Stories” was collected by Afshin Naderi and published in 2004, yet I managed to read it in 2012. The book is an anthology of Iranian oral and folklore stories from different urban and rural areas of Iran, Akbariani said.

Highlighting significance of books

Sharjah: The second day of the first conference of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) for the Region of Central Asia and North Africa (Cana), continued with its sessions and activities, at the Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The conference began with a discussion on the topic “Every Child Has the Right to Become a Reader — Books for Children with Disabilities” introduced by Mohammed Al Nabulsi from Jordan, marketing officer of Sharjah City for Humanitarian Services.

Voices and Images from the Oral History Center

I remember staying with my grandparents Bernard Flood Sr. and Ada Little Money Flood in O`Kreek, South Dakota as a small boy. My grandparents didn’t have electricity, running water or plumbing until 1977. They gave me an invaluable gift, instead of sitting in front of a T.V or listening to music from an I Pod, they shared the history of our people and the greatness of our leaders and holy men from stories passed down throughout time. I would sit back and listen to all they shared and tried to imagine how the man they spoke about looked, what caliber of man he was and what his voice sounded like. I am a non-traditional student here at the University of South Dakota, and I have been awarded work study hours in the South Dakota Oral History Center.

Local civil rights pioneers will join to give an oral history of their journey

Juanita Cunningham is seen at her residence on Northwest 14th Street in Ocala, Fla., on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. Cunningham was a prominent teacher in Marion County and is being honored at Black Ocala, an oral history, in the Webber Center at the College of Central Florida on Tuesday at 7 p.m. (Jacqui Janetzko/Star-Banner Correspondent) But in the 1940s, '50s and '60s in Ocala, there was nothing ordinary about black men and women who aspired to be school principals, to be master craftsmen, to run businesses, or earn doctorate degrees.

Back to Business: A Next Step in the Field of Oral History (3)

The lack of oral historians’ attention for business history has made them largely unaware of the development of new oral history applications in the field of organizational studies—the Learning History Method, for example. The method of “Learning History” was introduced by Art Kleiner and George Roth, both organizational scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1997. The Learning History Method is based on the assumption that firms can learn from their mistakes by interviewing their employees, storing those memories, and presenting them in a historical narrative—the learning history. The method includes interviews with all actors: from shop floor to boardroom. For Kleiner and Roth, the learning history is “an emotionally rich, cogent story reminiscent of Studs Terkel’s unvarnished first-person accounts of American life and society.”

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