Sierra Club Library Oral Histories, 2019-2023, 2024-2025, 2022
Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Sierra Club Library Oral Histories
- Dates:
- 2019-2023, 2024-2025, 2022
- Creators:
- Sierra Club, Malek-Wiley, Darryl , 1950-, Tohe, Robert, 1947-2019, Price, Jim, 1944-, McCabe, Bill, 1946-, Coling, George, 1947-, Hoover, Vicky, 1936-, Wood, Harold, 1950-, Evans, Becky, 1940-, Holtzclaw, John, 1937-, Valtin, Tom, 1958-, Dunn, Therese , 1965-, Beltran, Cailee, 1998-, and Sanchez-Chew, Mariana, 1966-
- Abstract:
- In 2019, the Sierra Club's William E. Colby Memorial Library embarked on a new oral history program, known as the Sierra Club Library Oral History Project, to complement those created by UC Berkeley's Oral History Center. These interviews and the administrative work were performed by library staff with a goal of expanding the oral history collection, by acquiring shorter, focused narratives of Sierra Club champions, to be compiled into subject-based collections. The resulting collection contains nine oral history interviews conducted by the Colby Library staff, with a focus on highlighting environmental justice leaders' and organizers' voices.
- Extent:
- 3.9 Gigabytes in computer files
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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[Name of interviewee, title of interview], an interview conducted by [name of interviewer, year of interview] in [title of interview compendium volume, if applicable] for the Sierra Club Library Oral History Project, Sierra Club.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Contains ten oral history interviews conducted by the Sierra Club's William E. Colby Memorial Library staff, as part of the Colby Library's ongoing in-house oral history program, with a focus on highlighting environmental justice leaders' and organizers' voices. The collection contains audio/visual and text materials, including transcripts and born-digital interview recordings. This is an ongoing project of the Sierra Club's Colby Library, and new materials will be documented in this guide once completed.
- Biographical / historical:
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Since 1970, the Sierra Club has collaborated with the Oral History Center of the Bancroft Library (formerly the Regional Oral History Office) at UC Berkeley in collecting interviews from devoted leaders, volunteers, and contributors of the Sierra Club. For more information about the Sierra Club's oral history collection at the Oral History Office, and to view transcripts of previous interviews, visit the following webpage: https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/visit/bancroft/oral-history-center/projects/sierra-club
In 2019, the Sierra Club's William E. Colby Memorial Library embarked on a new oral history program - known as the Sierra Club Library Oral History Project - to complement those created by the Oral History Center. These interviews and the administrative work were performed by Sierra Club library staff with a goal of expanding the oral history collection, by acquiring shorter, focused narratives of Sierra Club champions, to be compiled into subject-based collections.
- Acquisition information:
- Assembled by the staff at the William E. Colby Memorial Library, Sierra Club.
- Arrangement:
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The collection is divided into two series, one of which has been further arranged into a subseries. As this is an ongoing project of the Sierra Club's Colby Library, new series will be added into this guide, if needed.
Series I "Sierra Club's Valued Volunteers" contains four oral histories from long time volunteers of the Sierra Club. The interviews are arranged chronologically by their creation date, beginning with Vicky Hoover from 2021 and ending with Harold Wood from 2023. The title of this series "Sierra Club's Valued Volunteers" also represents the interview compendium volume by the same name.
Series II "Documenting the Voices of Environmental Justice" contains six oral histories, created as part of the Colby Library's Documenting the Voices of Environmental Justice (DVEJ) program. This series includes two oral histories from the Sierra Club environmental justice organizers Darryl Malek-Wiley and Mariana Sanchez-Chew, as well as the subseries "Sierra Club's Environmental Justice Leaders I" which represents the interview compendium volume by the same title. This subseries is arranged chronologically by the interview creation date, beginning with Robert Tohe in 2019 and ending with George Coling in 2022.
- Physical / technical requirements:
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Advance notice is required for the use of computer records. Original physical digital media is restricted.
- Physical facet:
- 20 audio files (5 mp3, 15 m4a); 5 video files (mp4); 22 text files (PDF)
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-12-12 15:38:07 -0500 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open for research use. Requests must be addressed to Sierra Club, William E. Colby Memorial Library, 2101 Webster St., Suite 1300, Oakland, CA 94612. colby.library@sierraclub.org
- Terms of access:
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Copyright held by Sierra Club. Excerpts up to 1,000 words from the interviews may be quoted for publication without seeking permission as long as the use is noncommercial and properly cited. Permission for reproduction or publication of this item beyond those conditions mentioned above and/or allowed by fair use must be secured from the copyright holder.
- Preferred citation:
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[Name of interviewee, title of interview], an interview conducted by [name of interviewer, year of interview] in [title of interview compendium volume, if applicable] for the Sierra Club Library Oral History Project, Sierra Club.
- Location of this collection:
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2101 Webster Street, Suite 1300Oakland, CA 94612, US
- Contact:
- (415) 977-5506