StoryCorps® Comes to Central

Central Library is the location of the first Outpost booth for StoryCorps, a national project to instruct and inspire people to record each others’ stories in sound.

StoryCorps facilitators help interviewers figure out what questions to ask and handle all the technical aspects of recording the memories of family members or friends. After the hour-long session, participants receive a copy of the interview on CD. With the participants' permission, one copy goes to the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress and one copy stays with MPL. A donation of $10 is suggested.

StoryCorps will be recording in Central Library’s Oriental Room until Jan. 24, 2008 gathering more than 450 interviews. To learn more about StoryCorps and how to interview a family member or friend, log on to the StoryCorps Web site or call them toll free (24 hours a day, seven days a week) at (800) 850-4406.