The Area

 
 

 

Although by location a suburb of Oklahoma City, Norman began a continues as an independent community with a permanent population of more than 102,800. It has extensive parks and recreation programs, a 10,000-acre lake and park area, a community theater, an art center and art league, and other amenities of a university town.

Norman is a 20-minute drive from Oklahoma City and Will Rogers International Airport, the State Historical Society Archives and Library, the Oklahoma Department of Libraries, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Firefighters Museum, the Omniplex, the Oklahoma City Zoo, art galleries, and museums.




Recently, Norman was ranked the sixth-best city to live in by CNNMoney.com.  The rankings were based on plentiful jobs, excellent schools, quality of life and affordable housing.  For CNNMoney’s complete article, please click here.


Links Of Local Interest

  1. •www.normanok.org

  2. •Norman Convention and Visitors Bureau

  3. •City of Norman

  4. •Lake Thunderbird

  5. •The Crucible foundry, gallery and sculpture garden

  6. •CART:  Cleveland County Area Rapid Transit

  7. •OU Campus Corner

  8. •Norman Transcript (newspaper)


Guide for Researchers in the History of Science Collections.

 

Links:  OU and beyond

University of Oklahoma

  1. •OU home page

  2. •Visitor Center / campus map

  3. •Search OU website

  4. •OU Daily (OU news, events)

  5. •Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History

  6. •Fred Jones, Jr. Museum of Art

  7. •College of Fine Arts (with calendar of events)

  8. •Athletics news/events

  9. •Recreational Services

  10. •Sooner OneCard

  11. •OU Network account management


University Libraries: 

  1. •Western History Col.

  2. •Chem-Math Libr.

  3. •Youngblood Energy Libr.

  4. •Physics-Astronomy Libr.


Oklahoma City

  1. •Oklahoma City Convention and Visitors Bureau

  2. •Will Rogers World Airport

  3. •Bricktown

  4. •National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum

  5. •Oklahoma History Center

  6. •Oklahoma City Museum of Art

  7. •Science Museum Oklahoma and Red Earth Museum

  8. •Red Earth Festival

  9. •News: oeta; koco.com; news9.com; kfor.com; newsOK.com.


Oklahoma

  1. •TravelOK.com

  2. •Travel.net

  3. •Oklahoma Travel Guide

  4. •State of Oklahoma

  5. •State Parks


Norman, Oklahoma