Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Sierra Club Oral History Project transcripts
- Dates:
- 1974-1992
- Creators:
- Sierra Club Oral History Project and Sierra Club
- Extent:
- 1 unknown (23 volumes)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Sierra Club Oral History Project transcripts (Collection 329). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection consists of transcribed oral history interviews documenting the leadership, programs, strategies, and ideals of the national Sierra Club as well as the club grassroots at the regional and chapter levels. The interviews feature various aspects of the club including education, litigation, legislative lobbying, energy policy, urban issues, and wilderness preservation. Each interview in the collection has been cataloged separately.
- Biographical / historical:
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The Sierra Club is a nonprofit organization in the U.S. and Canada that works to educate the public on environmental issues and lobbies local, state, and federal bodies for environmental legislation; it was founded in 1892 by the naturalist John Muir who was the first president (1892-1914); The Sierra Club History Committee was created in 1970 to maintain the Sierra Club records and to set up an oral history program; originally, some committee members volunteered as interviewers and were trained by Willa Baum, Head of Bancroft's Regional Oral History Office.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of the Sierra Club, date of receipt unknown.
- Physical location:
- Held at UCLA Library Special Collections. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Names:
- Sierra Club
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2020-12-23 14:31:21 -0800 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Unprocessed collection. Material is unavailable for access. Please contact Special Collections reference (spec-coll@library.ucla.edu) for more information.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Sierra Club Oral History Project transcripts (Collection 329). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988