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RADOC 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. The Romani Archives and Documentation Center (RADOC) is a collection initiated by Ian Hancock more than 50 years ago. RADOC became one of the most important Romani archives in the world and is now in a process of reconfiguration. It is made up of over 10,000 pieces of printed materials, including books, monographs, articles, periodicals, and dissertations. The collection also contains audio and visual recordings in different formats (DVDs, tapes, compact discs, photographs, and transparencies), as well as maps, posters, prints, and artifacts. The documentation relates to Romani organizations and educational project reports in the United States and Europe.

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. 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.

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 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.