The Center for the History of Rural Iowa Education and Culture maintains a collection of ongoing reference files on various aspects of rural education. These files include newspaper clippings, newsletters, maps, brochures, pamphlets, and other ephemera pertaining to Iowa's counties and schools, reorganization and consolidation, curriculum, school laws, and the Marshall Center School.
Subject files are accessible to researchers during normal business hours at the Center for the History of Rural Iowa Education and Culture, which is located on the third floor of the University of Northern Iowa's Rod Library in the Special Collections and University Archives. Hours of operation are from 8am to 4pm Monday through Friday.