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Title Fisher, Alan
Author Finley, Judith Reid, 1936-
Type of Resource mixed material
Digital Origin reformatted digital
Date Created 1979-10-22
Date Digitized 2010-04-08
Rights Statement Portions of this interview may only be used for educational or scholarly purposes. All rights in the manuscript and recording, including the right to publish, are reserved to the Colorado College Tutt Library. PERMISSION TO PUBLISH IN ANY FORMAT MUST BE REQUESTED from Special Collections, Colorado College Tutt Library.
Description Alan Fisher (CC class of 1968) grew up in Wichita, Kansas attending Wichita State for one year before transferring to Colorado College in 1965. Graduating with his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science in 1968, he served in the U.S. Army until 1971. He received a Master of Library Science in 1972 from Denver University, and a Master of Arts in Business from the University of Nebraska in 1976. He served as reference librarian at Tutt Library from 1977 to 1983. Alan describes campus life and attitudes during the late 1960's.
Note (admin) Digitized from the original Special Collections Audio tape R26. This interview is part of a larger collection totaling 89 individuals. Interview transcripts converted to PDF/A from Microsoft Word. Other file materials, biographical data sheets, indexes, legal releases scanned from originals and converted to text searchable PDF/A using Fujitsu 4150 scanner and Scandallpro software version 1.5. Scanned at 400 dpi. Photos scanned at 500 dpi and saved as jpeg. There are 131 preservation wave files (44.1 kHz, 16-bit) and 131 delivery mp3 files (128 kbps) in the set. Each file represents up to an hour of material, equivalent to one side of a reel-to-reel tape or both sides of a cassette tape. The 262 files are now located on both of two hard drives in Special Collections, the master drive (A1) formatted for Mac and a backup drive (B1) formatted for PC. (.wav preservation masters created by Tom Sanny using Final Cut Pro. Analog tapes digitized as QuickTime 44k16b .mov files. Dead air edited out and sound levels adjusted ; .wav files exported using FCP QuickTime Conversion tool ; .mp3 files created from .wav files using Switch.) All files are monaural.
Subject (topic) Oral history
Universities and colleges
College students
Alumni
Academic librarians
Subject (corporate name) Colorado College
Subject (personal name) Fisher, Alan, 1946-
Subject (time) 1960-1969
1970-1979
1980-1989
Subject (geographic) Colorado
Colorado Springs (Colo.)
Subject (form) Personal narratives
Audio recording
Added Author O'Connor, Anne
Publisher Colorado College
Place of Publication Colorado Springs, Colorado
Language eng
Series Title Colorado College Oral History Collection
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/10176/coccc:3020
 
Attached Files
Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads
FisherAlan1.mp3   Audio access 1 audio/mpeg 47.02MB 0
FisherAlanPhoto.jpg   Photo -- Alan Fisher. Source: Special Collections. Oral History File image/jpeg 1.49MB 0
FisherAlanaBio.pdf   Biographical information sheet application/pdf 168.26KB 0
FisherAlanbSummary.pdf   Summary index of interview application/pdf 467.79KB 0
FisherAlancTranscript.pdf   Transcript of interview application/pdf 187.79KB 0
FisherAlandAgreement.pdf   Permission agreement application/pdf 70.14KB 0
FisherAlandm1.wav   Audio access 1 audio/x-wav 259.22MB 0

 
 
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