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Exploring the richness of collection-level subject metadata in three large-scale digital libraries (open access)

Exploring the richness of collection-level subject metadata in three large-scale digital libraries

This article reports results of a study that used an in-depth comparative content analysis to assess free-text and controlled vocabulary collection-level subject metadata in three large-scale digital libraries in the European Union and the USA.
Date: December 31, 2014
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mummers Theatre: Oklahoma City's Tinker Toy Building (open access)

Mummers Theatre: Oklahoma City's Tinker Toy Building

In this article adapted from her Historic American Buildings Survey documentation, Cynthia Savage chronicles the life of the Mummers Theatre building in Oklahoma City.
Date: Winter 2014
Creator: Savage, Cynthia
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Winter 2014-15 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Winter 2014-15

Notes and Documents column including prophecies from the Oklahoma Century Chest, hundred-year predictions written in 1913 about the fields of religion, journalism, medicine, law, and education, as well as letters addressed to the leaders of banking and court leaders in 2013.
Date: Winter 2014
Creator: Williams, Chad
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"One Who Was Trusted": E. L. Mitchell of Western Oklahoma, Part Two (open access)

"One Who Was Trusted": E. L. Mitchell of Western Oklahoma, Part Two

Article describes the life and career of E. L. Mitchell, well-known newspaper editor, publisher, politician, and public speaker. In the second part of a two-part article, Paul F. Lambert provides details about the man's own views, particularly his Democratic political campaigns, and his impact on the community.
Date: Winter 2014
Creator: Lambert, Paul F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For the Record, Winter 2014-15 (open access)

For the Record, Winter 2014-15

For the Record section including the minutes of the regular quarterly board meeting of the Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on July 23, 2014.
Date: Winter 2014
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Hamlin Garland’s Oklahoma, 1900–05 (open access)

Hamlin Garland’s Oklahoma, 1900–05

Article relates the ways in which Pulitzer Prize-winning author and social reformer Hamlin Garland's travels in Oklahoma Territory influenced his view of American Indians.
Date: Winter 2014
Creator: Underhill, Lonnie E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
John Aaron: Oklahoma’s Legendary Steely-Eyed Missile Man (open access)

John Aaron: Oklahoma’s Legendary Steely-Eyed Missile Man

Article describes how John Aaron, a boy from southwestern Oklahoma, became a NASA legend.
Date: Winter 2014
Creator: Warren, Andrew L.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Mary Alice Hearrell Murray: A Chickasaw Girl in Indian Territory (open access)

Mary Alice Hearrell Murray: A Chickasaw Girl in Indian Territory

Article examines the early life of Alice Hearell Murray and her impact on the beginning of the career of her husband, William "Alfalfa Bill" Murray.
Date: Winter 2014
Creator: Reese, Linda Williams
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Spring 2014 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Spring 2014

Notes and Documents column including Nicole Harvey's "From “Grand Excursion” to the “Fall of Babylon”: Oklahoma City’s First Fourth of July Celebration" which explores Oklahoma's first celebration of the Fourth of July in 1889. It also includes Paul Lambert's "The Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame: Kenny L. Brown and Loretta Y. Jackson" which honors two of the 2014 inductees into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame.
Date: Spring 2014
Creator: Harvey, Nicole & Lambert, Paul F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For the Record, Spring 2014 (open access)

For the Record, Spring 2014

For the Record section including the Minutes of the Quarterly Board Meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on October 23, 2013.
Date: Spring 2014
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Corrections, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 92, Number 1, Spring 2014 (open access)

Corrections, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 92, Number 1, Spring 2014

Corrections section from Volume 92, Number 1, Spring 2014. It includes corrections to photograph captions in Michael Molina's "Red Panic: The Drumright Telephone Operator's Strike of 1919," (Volume 91, Number 3, Fall 2013). It also includes a correction to an endnote in Jeff Spelman's "Governor Lee Cruce and the Creation of the Office of County Assessor: A Hundred Year Retrospective" (Volume 91, Number 4, Winter 2013-2014).
Date: Spring 2014
Creator: Molina, Michael; Spelman, Jeff & Bass, Elizabeth M. B.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Building and Promoting Their Place: The Clegerns of ‘89 (open access)

Building and Promoting Their Place: The Clegerns of ‘89

Article discusses the Clegern family and sheds light on a crucial time in the growth of three different Oklahoma cities. William Clegern and his son, Harry, were entrepreneurs who found opportunity in the 1889 Land Run. In addition, they influenced the development of Oklahoma City, Edmond, and Henryetta.
Date: Spring 2014
Creator: Clegern, Wayne M.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
“The Golden Days”: Taylor and Mary Ealy, Citizenship, and the Freedmen of Chickasaw Indian Territory, 1874–77 (open access)

“The Golden Days”: Taylor and Mary Ealy, Citizenship, and the Freedmen of Chickasaw Indian Territory, 1874–77

Article explores the freedmen's struggle for identity in Indian Territory during Reconstruction through the impressions and observations of Presbyterian missionaries Taylor and Mary Ealy.
Date: Spring 2014
Creator: Cain, Ellen
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
“A Romantic Modernist”: William Wayne Caudill and the Work of Caudill Rowlett Scott in Oklahoma (open access)

“A Romantic Modernist”: William Wayne Caudill and the Work of Caudill Rowlett Scott in Oklahoma

Article describes Oklahoma-born architect William Wayne Caudill's career and his contributions to architecture in Oklahoma.
Date: Spring 2014
Creator: Kline, Susan Allen & Savage, Cynthia
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Dust Bowl: The Blame Game, the Facts, the Problem that Remains (open access)

The Dust Bowl: The Blame Game, the Facts, the Problem that Remains

Article investigates film and literature that provides coverage of the Dust Bowl, including the debate over factors that contributed to the creation of the disaster. Alvin O. Turner disagrees with those who argue it was caused by farming practices, stating that there is no evidence to support the connection.
Date: Spring 2014
Creator: Turner, Alvin O.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Summer 2014 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Summer 2014

Notes and Documents column including a short article honoring Linda Williams Reese and Mary Jane Warde, two of the inductees into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame in 2013. It also includes "The Story of the Location of the Capital" that was written by Thomas F. Mechan in 1913 and provides an account of Oklahoma politics during the state's early days.
Date: Summer 2014
Creator: Lambert, Paul F.; Bass, Elizabeth M. B.; McMechan, Thomas F. & Williams, Chad
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For the Record, Summer 2014 (open access)

For the Record, Summer 2014

For the Record section including the Minutes of the Quarterly Board Meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on January 22, 2014.
Date: Summer 2014
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Harnessing Nature: Flood Control in Oklahoma (open access)

Harnessing Nature: Flood Control in Oklahoma

Article describes the development of flood control structures in Oklahoma. It presents a brief overview of the history, importance, and benefits of small watershed dams; highlights three small watershed dams in Logan County; and demonstrates how the watershed dams have benefited Oklahoma.
Date: Summer 2014
Creator: Mundende, Darlington Chongo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Dean A. McGee: Genius with Guts (open access)

Dean A. McGee: Genius with Guts

Article examines the philanthropic contributions of Dean A. McGee, geologist and partner in the Kerr-McGee Corporation, to Oklahoma City and Oklahoma in general.
Date: Summer 2014
Creator: Pryse, JA
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Camp Fire Girls versus Boy Scouts: A Friendly Game of Urban Forest-Building (open access)

Camp Fire Girls versus Boy Scouts: A Friendly Game of Urban Forest-Building

Article explains the friendly rivalry between the Camp Fire Girls and the Boy Scouts as the groups worked to improve the urban landscape in Oklahoma City.
Date: Summer 2014
Creator: Nelson, Darin
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Oklahoma in James Bryce's The American Commonwealth (open access)

Oklahoma in James Bryce's The American Commonwealth

Article presents an analysis of James Bryce's discussion of the Oklahoma Constitution and provides a new perspective on the political climate of the statehood era.
Date: Summer 2014
Creator: Taylor, Quentin
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Fall 2014 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Fall 2014

Notes and Documents column including the previously unknown manuscript titled "The First Week in Oklahoma City" by Angelo C. Scott with an introduction by Chad Williams. The manuscript provides a firsthand account of the creation of Oklahoma City in the days immediately following the Land Run of 1889.
Date: Autumn 2014
Creator: Williams, Chad & Scott, Angelo C.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For the Record, Fall 2014 (open access)

For the Record, Fall 2014

For the Record section including the Minutes of the Quarterly Board Meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on April 23, 2014. It also includes the Minutes of the Meeting of the Membership that was held on April 24, 2014.
Date: Autumn 2014
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Corrections, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 92, Number 3, Fall 2014 (open access)

Corrections, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 92, Number 3, Fall 2014

Correction section from Volume 92, Number 3, Fall 2014. It includes two corrections to Volume 92, Number 2, Summer 2014. The spine of Volume 92 Number 2 erroneously lists the issue as the winter issue. In "Oklahoma in James Bryce's The American Commonwealth," the editor should be listed as Davis Joyce in endnote 68.
Date: Autumn 2014
Creator: Taylor, Quentin & Bass, Elizabeth M. B.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History