Diverse Personnel in Libraries

Diversity

Identity

Interviewees

Interviewing

Life History

Memory

Mentoring

Oral Historians: Tasks and Roles

Oral History

Oral History: Definitions

Shared Authority

Spectrum Initiative

Storytelling

Trauma

Validity

• “`The people you interview become your teachers." ⁱ
• "Each person is a crossroads of many potential stories, of possibilities imagined and not taken, of dangers skirted and barely avoided.” ⁱⁱ
• “One of the embarrassments of field work has been the fact of always looking for the “old folks”; we need not reverse this approach to start looking only for young people, bu tit is important to be aware that the young also are bearers of class culture and memory, and may suggest reinterpretations of the past.” ⁱⁱⁱ

ⁱ (Sual Benison, interviewed by Studs Terkel) “It’s Not the Song, It’s the Singing: Panel Discussion on Oral History,” In Grele, Ronald J., Envelopes of Sound: The Art of Oral History 2nd ed (Chicago: Precedent Publishing, 1985), 56.
ⁱⁱ Portelli, Alessandro (The Battle of Valle Guilia: Oral History and the Art of Dialogue. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1997), 58.
ⁱⁱⁱ Portelli, Alessandro (The Battle of Valle Guilia: Oral History and the Art of Dialogue. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1997), 239.