... Libraries are subscribing to more electronic databases of reference materials, journals and books these days. Librarians say the computerized information is easy to search, is available to students off-campus 24 hours a day and can be used by many people at the same time.
Richard Paustenbaugh, an Oklahoma State University associate dean in the library, typed search words into a database of The Times newspaper in London as he talked over the phone.
He found an 1889 article on a land run and David L. Payne, considered the father of Oklahoma's Payne County.
Without the electronic search capability, researchers looking for Oklahoma-related information probably would not have found that article, he said.
"They would have had to page through and page through and page through," Paustenbaugh said...
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