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Doug BoydDr. Doug Boyd
Director Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History
Margaret I. King Building
University of Kentucky Libraries
Lexington, KY 40506-0039
phone: (859) 257-9672
fax: (859) 257-6311
email: Doug Boyd



Doug Boyd Ph.D. serves as the Director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries.  Boyd led the team that envisioned, designed and implemented the open source OHMS system (Oral History Metadata Synchronizer) which connects textual searches to correlating moments in the audio or video files online.  He is currently directing the IMLS National Leadership Grant OHMS: Enhancing Access and Discovery of Oral History Online to create OHMS compatibility with popular systems such as Omeka and CONTENTdm. His recent publications include the book Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community, which was published in August 2011 by the University Press of Kentucky, as well as “Achieving the Promise of Oral History in a Digital Age,” a chapter in The Oxford Handbook to Oral History (Oxford University Press).  He managed the IMLS grant project Oral History in the Digital Age, a national initiative establishing current best practices for collecting, curating and disseminating oral histories and Boyd served as a keynote speaker at the Oral History Association’s annual meeting in 2011 discussing the project. Previously, Doug Boyd managed the Digital Program for the University of Alabama Libraries, served as the Director of the Kentucky Oral History Commission and prior to that worked as the Senior Archivist for the oral history collection at the Kentucky Historical Society.   Boyd was recently elected Chair of the Oral History Section for the Society of American Archivists and was elected to the Executive Council of the Oral History Association in 2010 and serves as the digital initiatives editor for theOral History Review.  Doug Boyd received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Folklore from Indiana University and his B.A. degree in History from Denison University in Granville, Ohio.

 

 

 

 

Sara Abdmishani PriceSara Abdmishani Price
Collection Coordinator
Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History
Margaret I. King Building
University of Kentucky Libraries
Lexington, KY 40506-0039
Phone: (859) 257-0189
Email: sara.abdmishani@uky.edu





Sara Abdmishani Price is the Collection Coordinator at the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.  She received her MLS from the University of Kentucky in 2009 and her BS from the University of Oregon in 2005.  Sara has worked with the Special Collections at UK since 2007 when she began as a graduate assistant in the Audio Visual Archives and later worked as student for the Nunn Center.  She is a 2007 American Library Association Spectrum Scholar, a member of several professional associations, and is actively involved in REFORMA and the Oral History Association.

 

 

Reinette JonesReinette Jones
Oral History Librarian
Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History

Margaret I. King Building
University of Kentucky Libraries
Lexington, KY 40506-0039
Phone: (859) 257-6042
fax: (859) 257-6311
Email: rjones@uky.edu


 

Reinette Jones joined the Nunn Center in August 2010.  She has been with the University of Kentucky Libraries for several years, and is a graduate of the UK College of Communication and the School of Library and Information Science.  She is the co-creator and co-manager of the Notable Kentucky African Americans Database, and the author of Library Service to African Americans in Kentucky. She is currently overseeing the Paris-Bourbon County African American Oral History Project, a collaboration with the Paris-Bourbon County Public Library.