過去臺灣基於政治因素，對本土歷史較不為重視。近年來，國內本土意識抬頭，中央研究院、民間團體或文史工作室，廣泛應用口述歷史的方法，訪問對臺灣有貢獻者或地方耆老，希望從訪談的文字中，補齊臺灣發展或長期被社會所忽視的地方史。然而這些口述歷史資料，零星分布各地，致使用者無處可尋覓。以國外的國家檔案館而言，他們視口述歷史為館藏發展政策之一，並肩負口述歷史計畫的執行、保存和製作資料庫，以提供查詢。而在國內國家或地方檔案保存單位，較少有口述歷史計畫或列為館藏發展政策、保存和製作資料庫以供查詢。因此，本文以「檔案館另類資料－口述歷史」為題，簡述口述歷史之定義、特質和界定，再進一步探討檔案館的口述歷史館藏政策、管理和檢索方法，並舉例說明國內保存情況，以供國內檔案保存單位參考。

　　　　　For the sake of political factors, the indigenous history had been neglected in Taiwan for the past decades. In recent years, indigenous consciousness has been awakened in Taiwan. Academia Sinica, nongovernment organizations and personal studios working on indigenous literature or history have applied oral history method by interviewing those people who had made contributions to Taiwan and those local elders of great esteem in order to make up the indigenous history of Taiwan which has been overlooked by the society for a long time. However, it is difficult to find these oral history materials because they are dispersed all over the island. In most of other countries, collecting oral history materials in regarded as one of the collection development policies in their National Archives. These Archives are also responsible for implementing oral history projects, preserving oral history materials, and providing databases for retrieval. In Taiwan, national archives and local archives rarely did what other countries have done. The purpose of the article is to dress the definition, characteristics, and compass of oral history. Furthermore, the collection policy, the management and the retrieval methods of oral history for an Archives will be discussed and the preservating condition for oral history materials in Taiwan will be exemplified for the reference of those preservation institutions in Taiwan.