As a winner of the 2013 National Media for Museum and Library Service award, Pierce County Library System will partner with StoryCorps in March to record interviews with people whose lives have been changed as a result of their experience with Pierce County Library.
Stories needed
Stories of individuals, groups, communities or businesses that have been affected by Pierce County Library are needed. This could be through services, staff, events or other resources the Library provides. StoryCorps is known for its compelling content. Nominees’ stories should demonstrate that the Library was part of a life-changing or community-altering event. The change could be confined to a single person, group or could affect a whole community.
Nominate by January 21
Interviews are between two people, so interview pairs are needed. Nominations can be made at www.piercecountylibrary.org, search site: StoryCorps. In 150 words or less, the nomination should describe the interview pair and make a brief case for why each individual should be chosen. Submission deadline: Jan. 21.
What will happen to the interviews?
Each interview is 40 minutes long. The Library will work with StoryCorps to choose one of the full-length audio recordings to be edited to two minutes. Once edited, that interview will be posted on StoryCorps’ Institute of Museum and Library Service (IMLS) page with the other nine winners from the 2013 IMLS class. Hear the 2012 interviews. The interview also will be posted to the Pierce County Library website and could be chosen to air on NPR. The Library hopes to find resources to edit and share the other 17 full-length interviews.
For more information, visit www.piercecountylibrary.org, search site: StoryCorps or contact Linda Farmer, APR, Marketing & Community Relations Director, 253.548.3428.
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sylvia kronstadt says
If you’re considering sharing your story, It’s important to realize that the consent form you’re asked to sign does not merely
allow copies of your interview to be archived at the libraries. It gives StoryCorps, a $10 million operation, sweeping, exclusive rights to your stories and pictures. “permanently and irrevocably”: They can do anything they want with your material (they’ve already turned people into cartoons!).
READ THE RELEASE FORM BEFORE YOU SIGN IT!
Here are just two of eight stipulations in the release form:
“TRANSFER OF RIGHTS: In consideration of the recording and preservation of the Interview, conducted on or about the date set forth below, I hereby relinquish and transfer to StoryCorps all title and literary property rights that I have or may be deemed to have in the Interview. I understand that these rights include all rights, title and interest in any copyright, pursuant to United States copyright laws. I understand that my conveyance of copyright encompasses the exclusive rights of reproduction, distribution, and preparation of derivative works, as well as all renewals and extensions.
“I understand that StoryCorps and its licensees may, without further
approval on my part, exhibit, distribute, edit, reproduce, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and broadcast the Interview, or any portion thereof, in all media, including but not limited to: radio, television, compact disc, in print, and on the Internet, as well as any successor technologies, whether now existing or hereafter developed.”
You also agree that StoryCorps may use your “name, voice, photographic likeness and life story in connection with the exhibition, reproduction, distribution, publication, public performance, public display, broadcast, and
promotion of StoryCorps, without further approval on my part.”
StoryCorps, in other words, will OWN your story and picture, in perpetuity.
You become “content” and “raw material” for an ever-expanding
array of media projects.