Students at Oilfields High School will be getting a lesson on communication and listening through the Human Library.

The initiative will have about 140 people from all walks of life at the school for students to speak with and ask questions one-on-one in regards to their life experiences.

Conor Hart, teacher at Oilfields and organizer for the Human Library, says the school's library tech Nadine Russell came up with the idea.

"Nadine brought up the idea of 'can we bring in interesting speakers for our students to listen to' and not just somebody who is maybe a scientist or a professional and they talk to 300 students and the kids sit there and listen, but I mean actively engaged and ask questions, that was kind of where the project started."

Oilfields held its first Human Library last year and was a huge success which led to its return this year.

Hart says the project helps to instill the importance of social skills.

"Kids are picking up books less and less, even the paper, they're just going straight to the computer and they Google and then they're on Wikipedia, and nothing against Wikipedia, but if you can just call somebody in the community the kids don't even know how to hold a conversation or start with the questioning," he says. "These are sources for them to go and ask questions, it's that reading experience but you get to have a conversation with the book."

The Human Library will span across four different days in March and April.