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Community Resources
League of Women Voters
The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan political organization that encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government and influences public policy through education and advocacy. Its site gives contact information for government and elected officials.
Living in Oakland
The City of Oakland's guide to services and resources available to residents of Oakland.
Community Services
Eden I&R Resource Finder
A tool to help find free and low-cost public health and human services available throughout Alameda County.
Oakland Services directory
An online guide to helpful phone numbers for services to be found in
Oakland Unified School District Community Services Directory
The Oakland Unified School District site provides an overview of the district, with sites for individual schools, and provides contacts and information for new and continuing students.
East Bay Works
Services and links for job seekers and employers
Doing Business in Oakland
Links helpful for starting up and running a business in the East Bay.
Doing Business in Oakland California
Permits, incentives, assistance and training, redevelopment areas, demographics, etc.
Alameda County Assessor's Office
Business and real property assessments.
Getting Started (with a fictitious name, various permits)
Fees, forms and procedures for filings required by the County of Alameda.
Local Government
These links lead to the home pages for the cities, the county and the local agencies in the region. served by the library.
Key local government sites, selected by Oakland Public Library staff.
Local History
These links lead to much of what is available on the Internet about Oakland area history.
Library-Created Web Pages
- The African American Museum and Library at Oakland (AAMLO)
This link leads to its home page. - Hidden Treasures from the Archives of AAMLO - profiles of several prominent African Americans from Oakland's history.
- Historic Images of Oakland - An Initial Collection
A collection of digitized photographs from the collections of the Oakland Public Library posted with the Online Archive of California. - History of Oakland Public Library
The history of California's second oldest public library. - The Library's Oakland History Room
A page describing the services and resources of the Oakland History Room of the main library. - Mayors of Oakland
- Oakland Newspaper Index: an online index to articles about Oakland and vicinity in the Oakland Tribune and other local papers, produced by library staff.
- Oakland History in Pictures A chronology of Oakland's development using images from the collection of the Oakland History Room.
Timelines
- Alameda County Sesquicentennial 1853-2003 - Includes a timeline of county history and a complete table of county supervisors
- East Bay Municipal Water District (EBMUD) History - timeline
- Oakland History Timeline - A timeline of Oakland History based on a 1952 Centennial Chronology by former City Librarian Dr. Peter Thomas Conmy and updated by City of Oakland staff
Trains, Planes & Automobiles
- A Short History of Oakland Airport
- Amelia Earhart's Last Flight
- The Dole Air Race tragedy – streaming takeoffs in MP4-format. (Viewer required).
- Oakland, Berkeley & Eastern – a celebration of Oakland’s historic light rail systems.
- The Transcontinental Railroad – with Oakland as its western terminus.
- Durant Motor Company of California – a self-guided virtual tour of the former plant.
- The Chevrolet Company of California – the groundbreaking in 1916.
- A hub of The Lincoln Highway – the first cross-country autoway.
Organizations
- African American Genealogical Society of Northern California
- Alameda County Historical Society
- California Genealogical Society & Library
- Oakland Heritage Alliance (OHA) - non-profit organization which advocates for the protection, preservation, and revitalization of Oakland.
- Oakland Museum of California
- Oaklandish - a stealth multi-form public art & media campaign designed to illuminate the unique culture and history of Oakland.
Landmark Buildings and Sites in Oakland
- Historic Preservation & Property Research in Oakland – Oakland Cultural Heritage Survey and the Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board
- History of the Claremont Resort & Spa
- Fox Oakland Theatre - Oakland's historic Fox theater - history, photos, preservation efforts
- Official Landmarks - a complete listing of officially designated landmarks
- Paramount Theatre History
- Pardee Home Museum - home of George Pardee, Mayor of Oakland and later Governor of California.
- Preservation Park: Urban Renewal - preserving history to reinvigorate Oakland's downtown.
- Oakland Skyscrapers – listed by height
- Kaiser Center
- Tribune Tower
- Heinhold's First and Last Chance – a childhood haunt of Jack London
- The Posey Tube
- Mills Hall
- The Peralta Hacienda
- The Camron-Stanford House
- The Dunsmuir House
- Young Women's Christian Association – the work of architect Julia Morgan
- The Cleveland Cascade – a neglected lakeside monument
- Studio One – Oakland's unique community art resource
- Remembering Seventh Street – a virtual tribute to a post-War destination
- Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail: Alameda County Guide
Government Agencies
- The City's Office of Information Technology Experience in the 1989 Earthquake
- Historic Parks and Recreation Centers in Oakland
- Port of Oakland History
Oakland Residents, Personalities and Communities
- Index of Biographies of Oakland Residents, Prior to 1907, from the California GenWeb site, indexes Guinn's "Oakland & Environs"
- Alameda County Biographies on the California Genealogy & History Archives
- Documenting the History of Latinos in Oakland – a joint project with the Oakland Museum
- African Americans of Oakland – archival collections at the African American Museum and Library of Oakland
- Historical Archaeologies of West Oakland
- Oakland, Where the Trains Stopped - by the African American journalist and publisher Thomas Fleming. Reminiscence of 1927
- Oakland Chinatown
- Oakland's Italian Americans
- Oakland's Greek Americans
- Oakland's Japanese Americans – a preliminary map of the Japanese American presence in East Oakland and downtown as part of the ongoing "Japantown Atlas" project.
- Oakland's Portuguese Americans – Louise Franco sings "Chamarita"
- "Uptown" Chinatown
- Horace W. Carpentier – the memoirs of the notorious first mayor of Oakland
- Bret Harte – California's first literary celebrity
- Col. Jack Hays – the Texas Ranger of Montclair
- Isadora Duncan – a founder of the modernist tradition
- Joaquin Miller - from the California Reader, links to writings and pictures of his home in Oakland
- Jack London – the gateway to the life and work of Oakland's favorite son
- Anne W. Brigman – photographer
- Aurelia Henry Reinhardt – Oakland's pioneer feminist
- Julia Morgan - architect
- Gertrude Stein – former Oakland school girl
- Feng Ru (Fung Joe Guey) – pioneer of flight
- The Society of Six – pioneers of abstract painting
- Sidney Howard – the first Californian to win a Pulitzer Prize, playwright, screenwriter
- Willis O'Brien – pioneer of motion-picture special effects
- Lillian Moller Gilbreth – “Cheaper by the Dozen"
- Frank Epperson – the progenitor of mass-market frozen treats
- Eddie Anderson – best known as " Rochester"
- Earl R. Warren – author of Brown vs. Board of Education
- Henry J. Kaiser – industrialist
- Steve Reeves – remembering bodybuilding's first international star
- Buster Crabbe – Oakland's best-known cowboy
- Cottrell Lawrence Dellums – organizer of the Pullman Car porters
- Fred Korematsu – vs. the United States
- Jessica Mitford – muckraking journalist
- Tommy "The Greek" Hrones – “master of the striping art”
- Curt Flood – vs. Major League Baseball
- Robert C. Maynard – groundbreaking journalist
- Huey P. Newton – the cofounder of the Black Panther Party in a PBS special
- The Unity Council
- The Black Panther Party
Images of Oakland
- Historic Images of Oakland - An Initial Collection
A collection of digitized photographs from the collections of the Oakland Public Library posted with the Online Archive of California. - OaklandHistory.com - nice collection of historical images of Oakland, drawn mainly from the Oakland History Room's Collection
- Oakland History in Pictures - A chronology of Oakland's development using images from the collection of the Oakland History Room
- Online Archive of California – searching “ Oakland” produces a bounty of results, including images from the collection of the Oakland History Room
- The Oakland Collection of the Oakland Museum of California
- The Internet Archive – for moving images of Oakland, search “ Oakland” as a keyword
- The American Memory Project – a search of “ Oakland” as a keyword will bring a bounty
- Commercial Vendor of Aerial Photography – Pacific Aerial Surveys
- East Bay Air Photos 1939 – hosted by the UC Berkeley Library
- Air Photo GS-VBZJ (1968)
- Photographs from the Farm Services Administration & the Office of War Information
Online texts
- The Centennial Year-Book of Alameda County – the first history of the city and its environs, published for the official centennial of the United States of America.
Web logs (blogs) about local history
Local Maps and Satellite Imagery
Oakland Unified School District Interactive Maps
Institute on Race and Poverty Maps of Oakland – providing maps to economic data.
Oakland Map Room – access to the official municipal parcel maps.
Infospace Scaleable Map of Oakland
Oakland Creeks – posted by the Oakland Museum of California, Natural Sciences Division.
Microsoft TerraServer Imagery of Oakland – a view from space.
Geographic Datasets for West Oakland – from the Geographic Information Science Center at UC.
Hazard Maps (Earthquakes, Floods, Landslides, etc.) – from the Association for Bay Area Governments.
Oakland's Commercial Strips – Maps from the Oakland Convention and Visitor's Bureau.
Geologic Map and Map Database of the Oakland Metropolitan area, Alameda, Contra Costa, and San Francisco Counties, California – from the United States Geological Survey.
News Media
Home pages of local radio and television stations and local newspapers.
Newspapers:
Dailies:
The Oakland Tribune
Emeryville & Piedmont.
Singtao USA – in Chinese.
Weeklies:
The Montclarion ( Oakland).
The Piedmonter ( Piedmont).
The Piedmont Post ( Piedmont) (email only).
The East Bay Express - the free weekly for the urban East Bay.
The Oakland Globe - covering the African American community.
The Oakland Post & El Mundo – covering the African American and Latino communities.
Mills Weekly – from the campus of Mills College.
Monthlies:
Bay Area Business Woman
MacArthur Metro – covering the MacArthur Boulevard corridor of East Oakland.
Oakland Business Review
San Antonio Unity – covering the San Antonio District of East Oakland.
Laney Tower – from the campus of Laney College.
Broadcast Television:
KTVU - Channel 2
Cable Television:
Peralta Colleges Television – produced at Laney College in Oakland.
KTOP – the City of Oakland's community access cable channel.
KDOL – from the Oakland Unified School District.
KCOM – community access for the City of Piedmont.
Radio Stations :
Licensed in Oakland/Piedmont:
KKGN 960 AM (Green 960).
KNEW (TALK 910AM).
KMKY (Radio Disney).
KPIG-AM – simulcasting in Piedmont from studios in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Transmitters in Oakland:
KPFA (Free Speech Radio) – the flagship station of the Pacifica Network.
Online City Guides
We Love Oakland
An Internet portal to the community, with calendars, discussions, auction and an online directory.
The Oakland Convention and Visitors' Bureau
Offers an online visitors' guide useful to residents, too, and has information helpful for planning conventions.
Google Regional Directory for Oakland
Links to what Oakland has to offer residents, visitors & consumers compiled by a favorite search engine of librarians.
Ofrenda – one woman’s portal to Oakland’s presence on the Internet.
League of Women Voters
The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan political organization that encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government and influences public policy through education and advocacy.
Web Guides and Portals for the Greater Bay Area
San Francisco Public Library's Local Links for San Francisco and the Bay Area
BayInsider from KTVU-Channel 2
Songs about Oakland
Songs about Oakland
Online sound files and sheet music.
Statistics etc.
Links here lead to sources of statistics, demographics and similar data.
The East Bay: The Bright Side of San Francisco Bay
Good source for economic data.
Bay Area Census
Census data customized for regional needs.
U.S. Census (2000) Demographics
Official demographics data for Oakland from the 2000 Census.
DataCenter Web Resources
Links to Internet tools for community and grass roots activists.
Pacific Institute Environmental Indicators Project
A very useful database of sources for local information.
Oaktown Datahouse
A source for demographic information by neighborhood.
Oakland Market Profile
A site for market demographics.
Oakland Health Profile
A good source for health data and household statistics.
Transit
Routes, schedules and fares for bus, BART, light rail and other public transportation services:
AC Transit (bus) Routes – serving Alameda County cities from Fremont to Albany.
BART - The Bay Area Rapid Transit District
Your Bay Area travel guide – an online guide and itinerary planner for all Bay Area transit.
Amtrak – with service between San Jose and Sacramento and across the nation.
Ground Transportation to the Airport
Weather
Data for Oakland from the National Weather Service
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