Recording OSU History

On this episode, Libby Whitlow, Digital Storytelling Intern, chats with David Peters, Head of the Archives, about how history was recorded at OSU and some of the challenges in archiving materials from the past.

This episode featured a segment from the Archives Live, a monthly video broadcast on the Archives Facebook page. Watch the episode for more information as well as view photographs from the archival collections at https://fb.watch/8jcGDAEm7I/

Find the OSU Archives and the collections online at https://archives.library.okstate.edu/

YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWSTDvKXpqLkLy0ZCcWVd0v1mYDD5r4V-

Explore the Archives Facebook page and see photos from the Archives.

The Library hosts a suite of podcasts. Amplified Oklahoma and Dear Oklahoma, both produced by the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program at the OSU Library, can be found wherever you get your podcasts.

Libby Whitlow is the Digital Storytelleing Intern for the OSU Archives. Libby is currently a junior at Oklahoma State Universsity studying History. 

David Peters is the Head of the Oklahoma State University Archives. He has worked at the Edmon Low Library since January 1986, working in the General Reference Department, later in Special Collections, then as supervisor of the Map Room. He returned to the Archives in 2000, where he has worked since.