Welcome to the CIT Library web page. 
While small, the CIT Library contains an extensive amount of information on the Coquille Indian Tribe and other Tribes of southwest Oregon including the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians. In addition, the library actively seeks and holds materials covering the history of Coos County as a whole. The Coquille Indian Tribe's Library is not part of the Coos County Library system but its materials are available to the public.
The library collection places an emphasis on providing information from the perspective of Tribes and Native Americans on subjects 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.
A 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. This list describes only materials covering the Coos and Coquille Indian Tribes. Information on other Tribes and southwest Oregon history is also available at the Library. Please contact us for information on visiting, using and borrowing CIT Library materials.
Location: 2611 Mexeye Lp. at the Kilkich community located on the Tribe's reservation lands located on the Cape Arago Highway between Charleston and the Empire neighborhood of Coos Bay, Oregon.
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 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.
