North Dakota State Library North Dakota State Library The North Dakota State Library is a government operated library in the U.S. state of North Dakota. Located in the state's capital city of Bismarck on the capital grounds, the library has been in operation since 1907. The State Library was established as the "Public Library Commission" in 1907, and it occupied a single room in the North Dakota State Capitol building. In 1909, the library's name was changed to the "State Library Commission". In 1936, the library moved to the Liberty Memorial Building on the Capitol Grounds, which is where it remained until 1970. At
Politics of North Dakota federal court ruled that North Dakota's new voter ID law was too restrictive, reverting the state's voting rules to their 2013 revision for the following election. Under the nullified rules, the state would have disallowed use of federal tribal IDs that did not include street addresses, even though most Native Americans on reservations use post office boxes. The court found the state had created a discriminatory burden on Native American voters. As in the national government of the United States, power in North Dakota is divided into three main branches: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. The capital of the state is