Oral history interview with Elena Tscherny
Object Details
- General
- Associated documentation for this interview is available in the Anacostia Community Museum Archives.
- Title created by ACMA staff using text written on sound cassette, contents of audio recording, textual transcript, and/or associated archival documentation.
- Names
- Anacostia Museum
- Washington, D.C.. Public Library
- Tscherny, Elena
- Collection Creator
- Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
- Place
- Washington (D.C.)
- Topic
- Librarians
- Hispanic American librarians
- Women
- Women librarians
- Hispanic Americans
- Latin Americans
- Public libraries
- Interviews
- See more items in
- Black Mosaic: Community, Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washington, D. C. Exhibition Records
- Black Mosaic: Community, Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washington, D. C. Exhibition Records / Series 3: Oral History Interviews
- Sponsor
- Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF).
- Extent
- 2 Digital files
- 1 Sound cassette
- Date
- circa 1992-1993
- Archival Repository
- Anacostia Community Museum Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Digital files
- Sound cassettes
- Citation
- Black Mosaic: Community, Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washington, D. C. exhibition records, Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
- Note
- The total playing time of interview recording is approximately 35 minutes.
- Scope and Contents
- Elena Tscherny spoke about the Office of Library Services and Programs, her career with and work for the District of Columbia Public Library, services and events that the DC Public Library offers the Spanish speaking community, artist exhibitions, bilingual librarians and staff, and the Mt. Pleasant library. She also explained how she would be able to help with Anacostia Museum's Latino exhibit; her involvement with and thoughts about community organizations and DC government's Office of Latino Affairs; how DC government budget cuts affect the DC Public Library; and ideas for documenting the Latino community. Elena Tscherny was interviewed at the Martin Luther King Memorial Library in Washington, DC. Interview is in English. Digital audio files include very loud white noise and static, and very background noise, including voices and a vacuum, at the beginning of the interview; interviewee's voice can be difficult to hear at times.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
- Record ID
- ebl-1712088000981-1712088003356-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0