The Grace Schmidt Room of Local History

ORAL HISTORY TAPES

The GSR has a collection of oral history tapes, featuring members of the local community. The interviews are generally less than 90 minutes long.

The catalogue of interviews is kept in the shelving unit next to the display window in the GSR. The catalogue is arranged by oral history tape number, with a surname index in the back of the binder.

You may listen to an oral history tape in the GSR. A cassette player and earphones are available for use. Please ask library staff at the Level 3 Information Desk for information and assistance.

You may sign out the cassette tapes for a one-week loan period if you are a KPL cardholder. Please ask library staff at the Level 3 Information Desk for more information.

Several early tapes have been transcribed and the written transcriptions are in binders on the shelves near the catalogue. A notation has been made in the catalogue if an interview has been transcribed. Please note that the transcriptions cannot be borrowed.

As well, some of the oral history interviewers prepared an outline of the interviews they conducted. These outlines are also in binders on shelves near the Oral History Tape catalogue.