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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- “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
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