A number of important resource collections are now available through the University of Oklahoma Digital Collections initiative. Of particular relevance to the OCDI are those materials curated in the Western History Collections Library. The WHC has evolved over the past 80 years to support teaching and research through its special collections of manuscripts, recordings, photographs and other primary source data. Interview transcripts from two important oral history projects are now available as pdf file downloads. The Indian Pioneer papers includes approximately 80,000 entries from interviews conducted in the 1930′s by the WPA. The interviews cover the period of 1861-1936, and provide data relevant to studies in history, anthropology and folklore. The Doris Duke oral history collection consists of interviews conducted between 1967 and 1972 among members of Native American communities in Oklahoma. A diverse range of tribal communities, subjects and themes are addressed. I look forward to continued efforts to bring the vast resources of the Western History Collection to enhanced open access.

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