UCLA Library Center for Oral History Research interview transcripts and recordings, 1959-present

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Summary

Creators:
UCLA Library Center for Oral History Research
Abstract:
Oral history interviews related primarily to the history of Southern California and the Los Angeles metropolitan region. Major subject areas include the histories of communities of color, social movements, politics and government, visual arts, jazz, books and fine printing, water resources, and UCLA history.
Extent:
The program's collections total more than 1,100 interviews. 32 selected online items available.
Language:
Languages represented in the collection: English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. UCLA Library Center for Oral History Research, University of California, Los Angeles.

Background

Scope and content:

The UCLA Library Center for Oral History Research was established in 1959 and is one of the oldest and largest oral history programs in the country. It documents the social, cultural, and political history of the Los Angeles metropolitan region through interviews with individuals who have been involved in historically significant events.

Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Interview transcripts and recordings not available through this Web site can be accessed in person at UCLA's Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections. Transcripts, but no recordings, of interviews conducted before 2006 are also available in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.

To purchase a copy of an oral history transcript or recording, please fill out the Oral History Copy Request Form.

Terms of access:

All transcripts and recordings published by the Center are protected under the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code). These interviews are being made available for private study, scholarship, and research purposes only, and no part of any transcript or audio may be reproduced, disseminated, or quoted for publication without the written permission of the head of UCLA Library's Center for Oral History Research.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. UCLA Library Center for Oral History Research, University of California, Los Angeles.

Location of this collection:
11717 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
Contact:
(310) 206-2454
oral-history@library.ucla.edu
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