Welcome to the page of the Coquille Tribal Library. An on-line source of information on the culture and history of the southwestern Oregon coast.
While small, the CIT Library contains an extensive amount of information on the Coquille Indian Tribe as well as other Tribes of southwest Oregon including the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians (http://www.ctclusi.org). Additionally, the library actively seeks and holds materials covering the history of Coos County as a whole.
The library collection emphasizes subjects from the perspective of Tribes and Native Americans including culture, history, health, education and law. Others subjects are available and our Library contains materials covering the same subjects you would find in a small public library.
New! A short list of CIT Library materials focusing on Tribes from southwest Oregon including the Coquille Indian Tribe and the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians. We are working on creating an on-line database of the entire CIT Library collection. This list describes only materials covering the Coos and Coquille Indian Tribes. More information on other Tribes and other aspects of southwest Oregon is available at the CIT Library, too. Please contact the Library for information on visiting, using and borrowing these items.
The CIT Library is not part of the Coos County Library system but its materials are available to the public.
Location: 3050 Tremont Blvd., North Bend, OR. The CIT Library can be found inside the Tribe's Administration Office, across the street from The Mill Casino.The Library contains the following items in its collection:
- 2800 books available for check-out.
- Over 30 newspapers and periodicals including regional and major state newspapers and newspapers dedicated to news of interest to Native Americans and Indian Country. The Library also carries the respective newspapers published by Indian Tribes in Oregon.
- 200 video and audio recordings.
- 30,000+ pages of archival documents from the combined collection of the Southwestern Oregon Research Project and the Melville Jacobs Collection.
