ListenOK is a guide to oral history collections in Oklahoma. This guide identifies and describes thousands of oral history interviews and their locations including libraries and cultural heritage institutions and provides a centralized searching point for these unique collections. Oral history is both a method of recording and preserving for future generations individual first-person perspectives of historical or cultural events or ways of life. It is a form of historic and cultural documentation that consists of an intentionally recorded interview (audio or video), created in mutual consent by an interviewee and interviewer with a clear understanding of access and preservation of the recorded document. For more on oral history work, see the Oral History Association’s Principals and Best Practices document: https://www.oralhistory.org/principles-and-best-practices-revised-2018/

ListenOK is sponsored by the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program (OOHRP) at the Oklahoma State University Library and offers researchers and the general public information about Oklahoma’s rich culture and history through the voices of those who lived it. The guide is searchable by keyword/subject, description, interviewee, collection holder, and collection title. Don’t see your organization’s oral history collections here? We want to add it to the guide! Contact us for further information.