Join fellow North Dakota archive, library and museum professionals/volunteers at free regional meetings in October for:

collections care information and resource materials
discussions about the current state of collections in North Dakota, leading to potential future funding opportunities
networking lunch with collections professionals/volunteers and elected officials

Registration
Registration is required by Oct. 7. To register go to [...]

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The microfilm runs of the Bismarck Tribune and the Grand Forks Herald that were located at the NDSU main library are now located at the Institute for Regional Studies & University Archives and are available for use in its research room. The years available for the Bismarck Tribune are 1970 through 1999. The Grand Forks [...]

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With the much appreciated work of volunteer Jane Skjei, over 9,000 additional entries have been added to the North Dakota Biography Index.  This is an ongoing project of the Institute for Regional Studies to provide easy access to the wealth of biographical information on North Dakotans in a wide variety of publications. Current work is [...]

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The NDSU Libraries was the NDSU feature for the biennial Higher Education Showcase held March 4 in the Great Hall of the North Dakota State Capitol. Highlighted were the Libraries’ special collections of the Germans from Russia Heritage Collection and the Institute for Regional Studies. Representing the Libraries was Dean Michele Reid; Michael M. Miller, [...]

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Search the Fargo Forum Obituary Database

Thanks to the indexing work of volunteer Elaine Linke of Fargo, 1,725 additional entries have been added to the Fargo Forum Obituary Index database. The new entries cover the period of April 1908 to August 10, 1909. it continues her earlier indexing that begins with the 1892 Fargo Forum. Her [...]

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Welcome to the completely revamped website of the Institute for Regional Studies & University Archives, now released in January 2009. Our new look is part of the new website developed for the NDSU Libraries. Almost all the information found on our former site has been retained and included on the new site.
Check out the main [...]

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Institute Photographs on Digital Horizons
University Archives Photographs on Digital Horizons

The Institute for Regional Studies & University Archives is pleased to make available fully searchable photograph databases to historical images related to NDSU and North Dakota.
The Web databases (separate databases for Institute and Univesity Archives photographs) currently include over 4,000 images, with new images being added weekly. [...]

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New Institute for Regional Studies publication tells the story about how one North Dakota man managed to pluck more than a hundred German Jews away from the clutches of the Nazis. Close to one hundred thousand European Jews found refuge in the United States before the onset of the Second World [...]

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Do you need a new address book? Is your current one full or certain letters out of space to add new names? Forget people’s birthdays? The Institute has a new publication just for you.
Its Greetings from North Dakota address and date book will help you organize this important information. The book [...]

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The Institute for Regional Studies offers a new publication, A Prairie Prayer; Poems by Bruce Roseland and illustrated by Marie Louise Tesch.
This collection of poems continue the ideas first introduced by South Dakotan Bruce Roseland in The Last Buffalo. Bruce’s poems are about surviving the (simple) country life in South Dakota.
A Prairie [...]

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