The LOC Veterans History Project, Part 3: Recording the Interview

This post looks at plans to record an interview for the Library of Congress's Veterans Oral History Project.You can do it yourself! The LOC shows how, with recommendations for both iPhone and Android devices. Download their pdf handout here with suggestions, plus the specifications for which types of files are accepted.Below, part of the LOC page showing that interviews can be submitted on DVD, CD, digital video media, audio cassettes, or USB flash drives. (I submitted on a flash drive. More on this in a later post.)Library of Congress media specifications for Vet Oral HistoryAudio or video?Originally, my husband and I planned to do an audio interview using a digital recorder from a decade in the past. Sadly, that recorder no longer works. Our even older micro-cassette recorders no longer worked, either. We didn't want to use our iPhones or iPad because we were unsure of how good the quality would be, how long the interview would go, and how much storage would be needed. If we were…