How to cite the Zybach Collection

Cite the book the way Bob prints it. Cite this page when you mean this page.

Page addresses here are meant to be permanent, and the Library intends to keep them. Cite the edition you used — working edition, 2026 — and a later reader will know which text you were looking at.

Bob Zybach's series has cited itself the same way since 1993, and that habit is the most useful thing in it. Keep using it. The Library's addresses exist to get you to the page, not to replace the citation.

The first rule

Cite the source, not the website. If you are quoting a narrator, you are quoting a printed monograph; cite the monograph and the printed page. Add the Library's address after it if you want a reader to be able to click through, the way you would add a DOI.

Soap Creek monographs

Every monograph carries a canonical citation in its own front matter. The Library prints that string verbatim at the top and bottom of each item page. Copy it as printed — including the monograph number, which is how the series' own index refers to it.

Zybach, Bob 1993. John Jacob and Wilma Rohner. Family Farming on Coffin Butte Between World Wars, Benton County, Oregon: 1919-1941. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #05. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 132 pp.

That is the string monograph #5 prints in its own front matter, reproduced here character for character — spacing and all. It is the same string the item page prints under "As printed".

Citing one page of it

For a passage, name the printed page and add the series' own shorthand, which is monograph number, colon, page. Every item page prints this line for you, made from the page you are looking at:

Rohner 1993, p. 13 — Monograph #05:13
https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m05-rohner/a-coffin-butte-landfill/#p13

The shorthand — 05:13 — is what Bob's master index has used since 1993, so a reader with the printed books and a reader with this site are citing the same thing.

Page addresses

Printed page numbers are the citation unit for the whole series, so they are the citation unit here too. Every printed page begins its own block of text with its page number in the margin, and that page number is a link. A reference like 05:47 resolves to the chapter of monograph #5 that contains printed page 47, ending in #p47 — the permanent address of that one printed page.

https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m05-rohner/<chapter>/#p47

Click the little "p. 47" in the margin and the address in your browser bar is that page's permanent link. Send it to anyone.

Front matter numbered in roman numerals keeps its roman page numbers and is addressed separately, so #pv and #p5 are different pages.

Elliott interviews, recordings and videos

The Elliott material is indexed the way Bob indexed it in 2019: by interview date, tape side, minute, and transcript page. Cite all four when you can.

Phillips, Jerry. Interviewed by Bob Zybach, 10 October 2017, Elliott State Forest field tour. Tape 3-B at 4:15; transcript p. 97. Elliott State Forest Oral History Collection, Oregon Websites and Watershed Project, Inc.

For a video, cite the video and the time code, as its own description does: title, channel, date, and the minute. The Library's video pages link each time code back to the same moment.

Thesis and Auto Tour

Zybach, Bob. 1999. Using Oral Histories to Document Changing Forest Cover Patterns: Soap Creek Valley, Oregon, 1500–1999. M.A.I.S. thesis, Oregon State University. 321 pp.

Zybach, Bob. 1989. Historic Soap Creek Valley Auto Tour. Corvallis: Oregon State University Research Forests. 32 pp.

If you need the tape

The recordings are held at the OSU Special Collections and Archives Research Center. Cite them by collection number and interview date — OH 006 for Soap Creek, OH 047 for the Elliott — and request them from SCARC. Two Soap Creek interviews (Rawie and Davies) have no extant cassette; for those the printed transcript is the only record.

The collection as a whole

How to cite this item

The first line is the citation as it is printed in the original. Use it when you cite the work itself. Use the second when you cite this page.

As printed: The Zybach Collection. Working edition, 2026. America's School Trust Library. Finding aid.
This page: The Zybach Collection, working edition, 2026, finding aid. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/ (accessed 2026).
Permalink: https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/

More on citing this collection: How to cite the Zybach Collection.

Reuse

There is no single rights label on this collection, because the material was made at different times under different agreements. Each group of material carries its own statement, and each says who to ask. Before you reuse anything beyond quotation, read Rights, use, and takedown — it sets out what the Library knows, what it does not, and where to write.

The indexes, place and people pages, the timeline and the page anchoring are the Library's own work rather than the creator's. An open licence for that layer is under consideration and has not been granted; when it is, the rights page will say so and date it. Whatever the Library decides covers only the layer it made. It cannot cover the sources.

One thing worth knowing, because it trips people up: the Oregon State finding-aid pages carry the Center's standard footer, "This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." That covers Oregon State's own description of the collections. It is not a licence on the recordings, the transcripts or the photographs, and nothing here should be read as one.

If a citation here is wrong

Say so. A correction is made in the text, where it belongs, and recorded on the errata page with its date. A wrong page number in an index is worth reporting; it propagates.