https://omeka.jmu.edu/bookstores/files/original/ddc2c81b4112dbe2530a17d8a58ac313.mp3 2066980a6087fbcfd8c55798e343084d Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Date of Interview The date the interview was recorded. 11/10/2015 Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Maria Rivera-Hernandez Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Dominika Maria Seal Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource An Interview with Dominika Maria Seal Subject The topic of the resource Bookstore growing up and a gathering place for people. Description An account of the resource This Interview covers the personal life experiences of Dominika Seal with books and bookstores when she was growing up in New York. She talks about a particular bookstore that she visited almost everyday after school as a place where people gathered, a place where you met new people of different diversities from all over the world, and a place with books of different languages and cultures. She mentions her interest of airplanes and aviation beginning in bookstores as well as traveling from one bookstore to another when she was little with her mother who was a journalist. Dominika feels that bookstores are fading away because of the internet and other fast and easy resources that we have now a day. She hopes that small bookstores that still exist today are able to stick around and be handed down to family generations. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Sound Recording, MP3, ca. 15 minutes