Title: Oral History Project File, 1979, 1984-1985, 1990-1996, 2015, 2019-2020
ID: 85/50/23
Primary Creator: Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA)
Extent: 0.7 Cubic Feet. More info below.
Arrangement: Alphabetical and chronological thereunder
Date Acquired: 03/12/2009. More info below under Accruals.
Subjects: Art Libraries, Audio-Visual Materials, Oral History
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; for access to electronic material, please contact an archivist.
Repository: Art Libraries Society of North America
Accruals: 10/16/2015; 6/10/2019; 6/14/2019
Alternate Extent Statement: 2048.00 megabytes
Acquisition Source: <p>Art Libraries Society of North America
URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/alasfa/8550023a.pdf
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