Augustana College

Center for Western Studies (CWS): a repository for more than 4,000 books, 40,000 photographs and various artifacts from the Blue Cloud Abbey-American Indian Culture Research Center (AICRC) collection, previously housed at the Benedictine monastery near Marvin, S.D. as well as various other physical collections and archives. The Center for Western Studies library houses nearly 35,000 books and bound periodicals focused on focus on the American West, American literature, and American Indian ethnology. "CWS embarked on a new partnership with Augustana University’s Mikkelsen Library to create Northern Plains Peoples and Places (np3), a continually growing online database of digital resources related to the Northern Plains and its inhabitants. The database includes primary source material from the Center for Western Studies archives, university publications, and scholarly research and creative endeavors by university students and faculty. Content on np3 spans a long period of Northern Plains history from early missionary work during the Civil War era to the present. Topics range from local Sioux Falls and Augustana history to regional literature, and religious, social, and political history." See website for full holdings and details on access.