National Library of Australia Oral History Collection
Contact
- Street address
- Parkes Place, Parkes, Canberra 2600
- Postal address
- As above
- Phone
- (02) 6262-1111
- Fax
- (02) 6273-4492
- Website
- http://www.nla.gov.au/oh/
About
- Officer in charge
- Chief Oral History Officer
- Hours & facilities
- Open Mon-Fri 9am-4:45pm; closed weekends and Public Holidays. General reference assistance available. Copying services available for books, journals and original records to A3. Introductory brochure available.
- Acquisition focus
- Interviews with prominent Australians. Oral history interviews of a social history nature. Australian folklore recordings.
- Quantity
- 500m (5% in-house)
- Major holdings
- Recordings of Addresses to the National Press Club 1963-1991.
- NSW Bicentennial Oral History Project 1986-1987.
- Parliamentary Library Oral History Project 1983-1991.
- Labour Council of NSW Oral History Project:1986-1991.
- Cultural Context of Unemployment Oral History Project 1984-1986.
- John Meredith Collection of Australian Folklore 1952-1991.
- Mel Scott Collection of Oral History Interviews 1970-1978.
- NSW Council on the Ageing Oral History Project 1987.
- Hazel de Berg Collection of Oral History Interviews 1957-1984.
- Chris Sullivan Collection of Australian Folklore 1979-91.
- Alan Scott Collection of Australian Folklore 1985-1990.
- Wattle Collection of Australian Folk Music 1956-1964.
- Marion O'Connor Collection of Australian Folklore 1959-1968.
- Barbara Blackman Collection of Oral History Interviews 1982-89.
- Guides
- The Hazel de Berg Recordings from the Oral History Collection of the National Library of Australia. Canberra: NLA, 1989.
Last updated: 2010-10-11