Skip to Main Content

Baton Rouge Room: Home

This page will help patrons learn about and search the Baton Rouge Room collection.

Baton Rouge Digital Archive

 

To visit the Baton Rouge Digital Archive click the icon above.

Baton Rouge Room Catalog

 

Click the icon to search the Baton Rouge Room Catalog for archival collections.

Archives Sites

We are Acadian! Book talk by Elizabeth Martin Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Join us at the Main Library to learn more about researching your family history. Local genealogist and author Elizabeth Louque Martin has written a new book about her family's Acadian origins, titled We Are Acadian!: Our Hebert Family. She will discuss not only the process of writing the book, but the many resources she discovered, online and in person. Come hear her share her story and insights.

 At the Main Library at Goodwood, Wednesday, November 20 at 6:00 pm.

Hosted by the EBR Parish Special Collections Department. 

We Love History!

Research your family history or Baton Rouge history in the Special Collections Department

Illustrated History of Baton Rouge

Check out the Baton Rouge Digital Archive online

The Baton Rouge Room Archives

The mission of the Baton Rouge Room Collection is collect, manage, preserve, and provide access to, items that represent significant historical actions of local governments, businesses, residents and institutions of the City of Baton Rouge and East Baton Rouge Parish. These items include but are not limited to photographs, manuscripts, documents, periodical publications, audiotapes and memorabilia.

Located on the 2nd Floor of the Main Library located at 7711 Goodwood Blvd.  Baton Rouge, La. The Baton Rouge Room is open 9am to 8:45 pm Monday through Thursday, 9am to 5:45 pm Friday and Saturday, and 2pm to 8:45 pm Sunday.  (Please note, all archival materials will be recalled 30 minutes before closing). 

 

Please call 225-231-3752 or meastin@ebrpl.com  for more information.

 

Genealogy

The Special Collections Department includes the Baton Rouge Room Archive and the Genealogy Collection.

For more information about the Genealogy Collection please visit the Genealogy Infoguide.

Baton Rouge Room Policies and Procedures

Course Slides