RADOC
at present located mainly on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin in Calhoun Hall 420, is the largest collection of its kind in the world. It consists of over 10,000 books, monographs, bound articles, papers and letters, prints, transparencies, photographs, audio- and video-recorded material, framed and unframed prints and documents as well as many other non-media items. It began to be assembled in London in 1962 and has existed as an accessible academic repository since 1976, the first year that Romani Studies was taught at The University of Texas. It has received, and continues to receive, materials from various individuals and publishers, including Etudes Tsiganes, The Romany and Traveller Family History Society, Lacio Drom, The University of Hertfordshire Press and the Centre de Recherches Tsiganes, and while the Department of Linguistics has kindly provided larger premises to house some of the collection, it has now seriously outgrown them. The Center receives an annual endowment for the acquisition of new publications, and The University of Texas is in the process of creating the country's first PhD in Romani Studies. A doctoral portfolio in this area already exists in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies. The Archives respond to e-mail requests for information daily. As the only university-based body regularly to receive governmental and other official reports on the condition of Romanies throughout the world, it remains the leading U.S. facility for Romani Studies. The university's Humanities Research Center (the Harry Ransom Center) houses in addition the Rupert Croft-Cooke Romani collection, while both the Perry-Castañeda and the Undergraduate libraries on campus also have substantial Roma-related holdings. Additionally, some music- and art-related materials are located in the Fine Arts Library. The entire collection will eventually be digitized and placed in the UT Library System.
It is visited each year by scholars from different countries; computer and work-space facilities may be made available to scholars on semester-long research grants from their own institutions. Printed and other materials are in process of being catalogued and daily Internet materials downloaded and saved to disk or hard copy. The entire listing will eventually be made available on this website; new acquisitions will be inserted each month.
Donations of materials are welcomed and are tax-exempt. They may be visited by appointment and limited photocopying may be arranged. Materials are not normally available for loan.