Finding Aid for the Sierra Club Oral History Project Transcripts LSC.0329

Finding aid prepared by Jasmine Larkin, 2020.
UCLA Library Special Collections
Online finding aid last updated 2020 December 23.
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Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Sierra Club Oral History Project transcripts
Creator: Sierra Club Oral History Project
source: Sierra Club
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0329
Physical Description: 1 unknown (23 volumes)
Date (inclusive): 1974-1992
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.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

Unprocessed collection. Material is unavailable for access. Please contact Special Collections reference (spec-coll@library.ucla.edu) for more information.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of the Sierra Club, date of receipt unknown.

Administrative History

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.

UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 4233780 

Preferred Citation

[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.

Scope and Contents

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.

Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use

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.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Sierra Club