Lacie: Within this darkened warehouse lies more than half a century
of Oklahoma history.
Joan Henderson: It's a step back in time, to go through these.
Lacie: But what used to take a walk through the warehouse is now available
with the click of a button.
Joan Henderson is the publisher of OKLAHOMA TODAY magazine.
Joan Henderson: As a gift to the people of Oklahoma, and as a Centennial
project, we are putting it all online, free and open access for schools and
libraries, and anybody really, for research purposes.
Lacie: And turning the more than 15,000 magazine pages into electronic
files took more than a year, and lots of cooperation.
Henderson: We were working with the Oklahoma State University library to do
just a database that we could search digitally.
And then they have an electronic publishing division, and we worked
together in partnership with them and with the CareerTech in Stillwater,
so the three state agencies working together to make this happen.
Lacie: By visiting OKLAHOMA TODAY's website and clicking on the
archive, you can search topics or keywords, or even just browse around.
Henderson: They'll find, also, every issue from 1956 forward, and they can
click on a year, and they'll see every issue there; and they can click
on the issue, and it loads very, very quickly on PDF format, and they can page
through just like they would a magazine.
We have issues that go back to when the Price Tower wasn't even built
yet.
It's just incredible, and it's a journey to go online and look at these
old articles.
Lacie: A journey through the decades.
From legendary cowboys to modern-day super stars, from politics of the past,
to the future of our economy, OKLAHOMA TODAY captured it all.
Henderson: The best photographers, the best writers, for 50 years have
been working on this magazine.
Lacie: Fifty years of Oklahoma's best and brightest, with just the
click, of a mouse.