The College Archives is a repository of historical materials relating to the founding and growth of the institution: correspondence, minutes, reports, publications, photographs, audio tapes, video tapes, artifacts and related materials. Principal donors have been administrators, faculty, staff, students and alumni of St. Olaf College.

Available at St. Olaf. Contains photographs, letters, diaries, journals and ledgers, newspaper clippings, obituaries, congregational records, family and local histories, and other resources related to Norwegians in America. Fees are charged for most services.

Contains collections of periodical articles, newspaper articles, and archival materials related to Kierkegaard studies, the history of the Library, and the biographies of Howard and Edna Hong.

A digital collection of historical documents about Northfield, through a collaboration of community partners, including the Northfield Historical Society, the Northfield Public Library, Carleton College Library and Archives, the Rice County Historical Society, and many more.

Located downtown by the Post Office. A summary of NHS collections. Generally includes historical newspapers, maps, photographs, business records, court documents, and birth and death records specifically from Northfield.

Also includes a finding aid for the Malt-o-Meal collection.

Located in St. Paul. Collections include: archival collections, birth and death records, census records, digital newspapers, oral histories [interviews], and maps from around Minnesota. Use finding aids and the catalog to find records for physical material you may want to look at in person.

Searches across finding aids for collections in: Charles Babbage Institute, Kautz Family YMCA Archives, Children's Literature Research Collection, Literary Manuscripts Collection, Givens Collection of African American Literature, Performing Arts Archives, Immigration History Research Center Archives, Social Welfare History Archives, James Ford Bell Library, Special Collections and Rare Books, Jean-Nikolaus Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies, University of Minnesota Archives, Northwest Architectural Archives, Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.

Search MHS's digitized oral history interviews, images of objects, photographs, government documents, and other documents.

Includes articles from papers published by the Faribault Daily News between 1931-1934, and photographs taken between 1879 and 1942.

Includes some photographs, podcasts, and information about notable events in the town's history.

InterLibrary Loan (ILL) is a service that allows Carleton students, staff, and faculty to request items that Carleton and St. Olaf do not own from other libraries.

A summary from 2013 - about the nitty gritty process of using the National Archives in College Park, MD.

Each guide includes a short writeup on the landscape of the field of study, links to relevant primary source collections at CRL, and links out to related sources.

CRL's quarterly newsletter with themed issues.