Oral History Collection Development Policy
The Cincinnati State Technical and Community College Archives will actively seek to collect
oral histories from people who can relate relevant information about the Cincinnati State
Technical and Community College. These people may include administrators, students, staff,
community members, etc.; but the focus of the interviews will be on the culture and growth of
the college and how those issues intersect with the lives of individuals. The oral history program
may also seek to capture a sense of the lives of its interviewees themselves and how these
individual lives affect these changes and reflect this culture.
The oral history program will endeavor to support the existing and planned collections in the
Cincinnati State Technical and Community College Archives; however, there may be times
when, by purposeful design, the oral history program will seek to collect stories from people who
are not represented in the documentation within the archives but whose stories are nevertheless
important in understanding the history of the college.
The oral history program will not actively seek to collect stories of people who have no
relationship to Cincinnati State or the larger issues that impact it.