The Douglas County Museum's Lavola Bakken Research Library is responsible for all paper and printed materials collected by the Museum. The Research Library's collections involve many different kinds of materials, as well as different classification systems appropriate to each kind of material. Special collections include ledgers, scrapbooks, county records, unpublished articles, letters, diaries, manuscripts, census and cemetery records, genealogies and 575 oral histories.
Admission is charged.
E-mail and telephone reference assistance is available.