THE SOUND ARCHIVES of the Public Archives of Canada in co-operation with the Canadian Oral History Association is preparing a national inventory of oral history collections. The inventory will document for the first time the extensive oral history holdings now existing in Canada and will serve as an indispensable guide for both the researcher of social history and the prospective practitioner of oral history. Initial research on the inventory has indicated that much oral history material still remains in the possession of its original creator and has not reached the safe and accessible confines of a library or archive. To encourage the acquisition of oral history the Sound Archives has therefore instituted a policy of offering serious researchers access to tape supplies and technical assistance in return for deposition of the completed interviews in the Public Archives. The donor will then receive copies of the original tapes and, in the case of collections of particularly high archival value, a small remuneration may be possible.