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

• “That possible truths are infinite does not mean that they are all true in the same sense, and that there are no such things as falsehood, manipulation, and error.” ⁱ
• “Scientific objectivity does not consist in absenting ourselves from the scene of discourse and pretending to a neutrality that is both impossible and undesirable. Rather, it consists in taking up the intellectual’s task of interpretation.” ⁱⁱ
• “It is uncertain whether any experience can be truly told.” ⁱⁱⁱ

ⁱ Portelli, Alessandro (The Battle of Valle Guilia: Oral History and the Art of Dialogue. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1997), 56.
ⁱⁱ Portelli, Alessandro (The Battle of Valle Guilia: Oral History and the Art of Dialogue. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1997), 65.
ⁱⁱⁱ Portelli, Alessandro (The Battle of Valle Guilia: Oral History and the Art of Dialogue. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1997), 143