Oral History Project File, 1979, 1984-1985, 1990-1996, 2015, 2019-2020 | The American Library Association Archives

Oral History Project File of project coordinators Pamela Parry (1984-85, 1991-93), Merrill Smith (1991-92), Lyn Korenic (1990-92), and Janis Ekdahl (1995-96) and of the ARLIS/NA Documentation Committee (2019) contains audio recordings, correspondence, guidelines, release forms, and transcripts pertaining to oral histories from ARLIS/NA founders, charter members, and selected oral history participants, including transfers of copyright to ARLIS/NA.

Hard copy holdings include correspondence (1984-85, 1990-93), guidelines and policy (1992, 1995-96), release forms (1990-93, 2015), and transcripts (1993, ca. 1995). Audiocassette holdings include 7th annual conference (1979), plenary session (1990), anniversary round table (1992), and interviews with Caroline Backlund, Florence Da Luiso, Wolfgang Freitag, Judith Hoffberg, Pamela Parry, Herbert Scherer, and Luraine Tansey (1990-94). Electronic WAVE holdings include 1991 interviews with Freitag and Parry. Electronic MPEG holdings include interviews with Freitag and Parry (1991) as well as Janis Ekdahl, Milan Hughston, Elizabeth O'Keefe, and Carol Terry (2019). Electronic PDF, WPD, DOCX, DOC, or TXT holdings include guidelines, policy correspondence, status report, transcripts (1993, ca. 1995, 2020), and release forms for 1990-92, 1994, and 2019 interviews. Electronic XLSX files include spreadsheet inventory and internal project documentation; for access to electronic material, please contact an archivist.