Stories

The oral history program documents the social and cultural history of the region through interviews with local people capturing personal memories of everyday life, community events and cultural traditions. Illawarra Stories reflects the region’s diversity.

The views expressed in the interviews are the speaker’s own and do not represent the policies of Wollongong City Libraries or views of its employees.

Illawarra Stories is a growing collection of local history with new interviews being added. If you are interested in taking part in the project by sharing your memories of life in the Illawarra please contact us.

Access interviews here.

Exhibitions

Photographic exhibitions are held in Wollongong City Library and hosted on this site. The images are from the Illawarra Image Collection of over 50,000 items and partnerships with community groups. They tell visual stories of the social and cultural history of the area.

View exhibitions here.

For more information about images or to make donations go to: Illawarra Images

Amplify is a State Library of NSW online tool which allows anyone to search, listen to and transcribe local audio collections. Amplify delivers digitised audio materials online, paired with computer generated transcripts. Users can listen to these recordings online and help correct any errors they find in the transcripts as they listen along.

Anyone can be a digital volunteer, choose a local story and start transcribing!