Paper presented at the Joint 2Fourth Annual IAMSLIC Conference and Seventeenth Polar Libraries Colloquy, 1998. The Ragnar Lassinantti Collection at Lulea University of Technology, Sweden, acquired the Ragnar Lassinantti Book Collection in 1990. The collection consists of about 13000 volumes, most of which are works of fiction and works on history, social science, geography, the history of literature, art and religion. The main focus of the literature in the collection is on Nordic conditions, with about 2000 volumes treating the Arctic regions of Fenno-Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula, including the Sami (Lapps) and the Laestadian movement. The collection not only contains literature in Swedish, but also in all of the other Nordic languages, especially Finnish. The archive material that belongs to the collection includes about 600 audio tape recordings. The tapes contain Ragnar Lassinantti's radio recordings from a radio programme which mostly consists of interviews with people from the Arctic regions of Fenno-Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula