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
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- “We are in the middle of our stories and cannot be sure how they will end; we are constantly having to revise the plot as new events are added to our lives.” i
- “An understanding of the dialectical relationship between memory and identity and the ways in which people tell their life stories is important in any life history research.” ii
- “By exploring the ways in which individuals present their life stories we can gain a deeper understanding of the complex relationship between past and present identities, and the ways in which individuals attempt to make sense of their lives.” iii
- “We can use one person’s life story as the means by which not only to understand and investigate his/her construction of his/her stories, but also as a mode for understanding wider social issues and how these are played out in individuals’ lives.” iv
- “A life story does not only consist of life experience up to the moment of telling the story: it is also formed by the moment at which to story is told.” v
- “The wider meaning of the life story, however, is conveyed not by the individual anecdotes, but by their weaving together.” vi
i Polkinghorne, D.E. Narrative Knowing and the Human Sciences. Albany:
State University of New York Pres, 1988.
ii Sitzia, Lorraine, “A Shared Authority: An Impossible Goal?”
The Oral History Review 30 (1) (Winter/Spring 2003), 100.
iii Hatch, J .A. and R. Wisniewski (eds.). Life History and Narrative.
London: Falmer Press, 1995 In Sitzia, Lorraine, “A Shared Authority:
An Impossible Goal?” The Oral History Review 30 (1) (Winter/Spring
2003), 100.
iv Geertz, Clifford, The Interpretation of Cultures (New York:Basics
Books, 1998) In Sitzia, Lorraine, “A Shared Authority: An Impossible
Goal?” The Oral History Review 30 (1) (Winter/Spring 2003), 100.
v Mann, Chris, “Family Fables,” In Chamberlain, Mary and Paul
Thompson, eds., Narrative and Genre (London; New York: Routledge, 1998),
82.
vi Ashplant, T. G., “Anecdote as Narrative Resource,” In Chamberlain,
Mary and Paul Thompson, eds., Narrative and Genre (London; New York: Routledge,
1998), 105.
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