The Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History is internationally recognized for its work in collecting and preserving oral histories. With over 17,000 oral history interviews, Nunn Center collections span an incredible breadth of topics and provide an invaluable resource to researchers across Kentucky and around the world. We engage in deep collaboration with our many partners, assisting with interview structure and technique, providing studio space and equipment, and helping instructors build semester-long courses utilizing our resources and collections.
Located on the First Floor of the Special Collections Research Center, the Nunn Center provides recording equipment and interview studio space to its oral history project partners, including professional-quality audio recording kits for off-site interviews and professional audio and video recording equipment in our studio.
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We partner with faculty, students, individual researchers, community groups, and others to plan and promote innovative oral history projects.
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Gifts to the Nunn Center help us archive, transcribe, and make accessible the history of our amazing state to benefit students and scholars for many years to come.
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