Many oral histories or historic recordings are included in traditional library catalogs and archival finding aids.
Hints for identifying this type of material in library catalogs:
- Many Advanced Search menus will allow you to limit by format type (sound recording, audiocassette, etc.)
- Some catalogs have a special shelving location for this type of material. If you can identify the particular shelving location (Cassettes for example) for audio recordings you can restrict your search to a topical (Indianapolis for example) keyword search within that given shelving location.
- If the catalog you are searching does not allow this sort of limitation try adding (one at a time) some of the following keywords to your topical keyword search. Some examples:
- Indianapolis and oral histories
- Indianapolis and interviews
- Indianapolis and recordings
- Indianapolis and sound recording
- Indianapolis and videodisc
- Indianapolis and speeches
