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History
Bob Bartling and several like-minded people founded the Prairie Striders Running Club in 1969 to promote running, fellowship, and health. Bob began collecting books and magazines related to running and track and field, and by 1978, the Prairie Striders Running Club Library was established. It includes 636 volumes of books, over 5,000 periodical and newsletter issues, and has the results of 16 annual races. The collection is so complete that even the editors of Runner’s World contact Bob for articles. The library was housed in the lower level of Bartling's store for 40 years and moved to another store in downtown Brookings before finding a permanent home in the H.M. Briggs Library in June 2015. It is currently housed in compact shelving on the lower level of the Briggs Library.
In order to make the collection useful, Bob began indexing articles in the magazines. He keeps track of subjects, events, and people on 4x6 index cards. There are now approximately 8,000 cards describing each issue in the journal collection. Each card usually includes two to fourteen entries. Beginning in 2019, students were hired to input the data from the cards into a database.
The Index to the Prairie Striders Running Club Library consists of entries for subjects related to running and track and field that were indexed by Bob Bartling and transcribed by students into a database. this is a work in progress. If you have a specific name or subject that you are interested in knowing about, please contact the SDSU Archives and Special Collections.