Exxon Valdez spill history website posted
July 17, 2014
Suzanne Bishop
907-474-6997
7/9/2014
A new project documenting the history of the the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill is now available online via the University of Alaska Fairbanks Elmer E. Rasmuson Library's Project Jukebox.
The new Exxon Valdez site contains conversations with 20 people talking about the oil spill, the impact the spill had on their lives and on the environment, the cleanup response, the long-term effects of the spill, and changes in the oil industry monitoring system. Additional material includes photos, videotape and journals.
The site was developed by the oral history department at Rasmuson Library and the Prince William Sound Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council.
This project was supported by funding from the Alaska State Library, Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Alaska Resources Library and Information Services, and the Prince William Sound Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council.
Project Jukebox is the digital arm of the Rasmuson Library oral history department. More than 35 projects on a variety of subjects integrate oral history recordings with photographs, maps and text.
ADDITIONAL CONTACTS: Leslie McCartney, curator of oral history, University of Alaska Fairbanks, at lmccartney@alaska.edu or 907-474-7737. Alicia Zorzetto, digital collections librarian, Prince William Sound Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council at alicia.zorzetto@pwsrcac.org or 907-277-7222.
ON THE WEB: http://jukebox.uaf.edu/site7/exxonvaldez
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