I've been straddling the line between library science and oral history for almost 20 years. I currently work at Mills College cataloging music, special collections materials, and of course, oral histories. My oral history work includes writing, consulting, interviewing, teaching, organizing oral history projects, and coordinating the oral history program at Mills College.I wrote Curating Oral Histories somewhat out of desperation. As a new director of an oral history program beginning 2001, I had many questions that I couldn't find answers for -- about space, recording equipment, keeping records, rights management, cataloging, and preservation. Plenty has been written on interviewing and oral history theory, but nothing about how to care for oral histories in the archive. As I write this in 2010, many questions are still unanswered. Though the field of oral history is blossoming, the methodology for preserving and making access to them is far behind. I hope this book will help you grapple with the issues in curating oral histories, as it helped me answer questions as I was writing it. The content is based on what I, as an oral historian and librarian, consider the most important issues. The solutions I suggest are those that have been time tested by my own work and that of my colleagues. Most important is to bridge the communication gap between oral historians and archivists.