This document provides tips and resources for conducting interviews to capture personal stories. It includes a sample release form that grants a library permission to use and publish the recorded interview. It also lists titles for four interview projects on different topics and additional online resources for oral history projects, including websites from StoryCorps, the Vermont Folklife Center, and California State University's oral history primer.

1. Capturing Stories
Interviewing Tools and Tips

6. I, _________hereby give to Emerald City
Library the interview recorded with me on
_________, and grant the library
permission to use this interview for any
research, educational, or other purpose the
Library deems appropriate. I give this
interview to the Library as an unrestricted
gift, and I transfer all right, title, and
interest, including copyright.
____________ (Interviewee signature)
____________ (Address)
____________ (Date)

9. Capturing Stories:
The Day After (1)

10. Capturing Stories:
The Day After (2)

11. Capturing Stories:
The Day After (3)

12. Capturing Stories (4):
Brown v. Board

14. Additional Resources
 StoryCorps.me
 VermontFolklifeCenter.org
 DoHistory.org
 Oral History Center (ohs.org.uk)
 cla.csulb.edu (Oral History Primer)