{"id":245,"date":"2005-12-27T13:50:08","date_gmt":"2005-12-27T18:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uconnstamfordlibrary.wordpress.com\/2005\/12\/27\/free-database-in-the-first-person\/"},"modified":"2005-12-27T13:50:08","modified_gmt":"2005-12-27T18:50:08","slug":"free-database-in-the-first-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/2005\/12\/27\/free-database-in-the-first-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Database: In the First Person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthefirstperson.com\/firp\/index.aspx\">In the First Person: an index to letters, diaries, oral histories and personal narratives<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This website provides an excellent portal to primary resources available on the Web. It indexes more than 2,500 international oral history collections in English. The title accurately indicates the content, and a quick review of the collections gives the scope. Best of all, it is free!<\/p>\n<p>The home page is well organized, with links to a table of contents that includes sections titled Repositories, Collections, Interviews, Interview Date, Places, Historical Events, and All Subjects. The quick search feature allows searching by keyword; results show the search term as it appears in the context of the transcript. Links take users to the interview&#8217;s host institution.<\/p>\n<p>Indexed collections include the Hollywood Film Industry Project, Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive, and Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive: Oral Histories.  <em>[Choice<\/em> Reviewed 2006 January]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexanderstreet.com\/products\/firp.htm\">Product Description<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the First Person: an index to letters, diaries, oral histories and personal narratives This website provides an excellent portal to primary resources available on the Web. It indexes more than 2,500 international oral history collections in English. The title &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/2005\/12\/27\/free-database-in-the-first-person\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NL2n-3X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/stamford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}