Clackmannanshire Libraries' Local History and Local Studies Service exists to preserve, organise and make accessible printed, photographic and other material relating to all aspects of local life and history. This can involve the mountings of exhibitions, the staging of talks and slide shows for community groups, the tracing of family roots, and the supply of materials for school and college projects.

Resources found at Alloa Library include books and pamphlets, magazines, annual directories, and genealogical and census material including: local 1841-1901 Census Enumerators' Books on microfilm; International Genealogical Index for Scotland; local Old Parish Registers of Births, Deaths and Marriages on microfilm. Newspapers on microfilm include Alloa Monthly Advertiser 1841-1843, Alloa Advertiser 1850-1972, Clackmannanshire Advertiser 1844-1859, Alloa Journal 1859-1972, Alloa and Hillfoots Advertiser/Journal [title varies] 1972 to date, Alloa Circular 1869-1950 [partial], Wee County News 1995 to date, Alva Citizen 1895-1897, Hillfoots Record 1900-1916, Tillicoultry News 1879-1900, Devon Valley Tribune 1900-1967, Fifeshire Journal 1833-1870, J Miller & Sons Monthly Advertiser [Dunfermline] 1841-1843, Searchlight [miners' magazine] 1925-1926. There is a major card index to local Alloa newspapers other than the Circular which covers the periods from 1844 to 1982 and from 1986 to 2001. The library holds photographs and slides, maps and plans. The Walter Murray Local Studies Library holds several thousand photographs and slides of local images and maintains an Illustrations Index of pictures arranged by place and topic.

Donations of material, whether printed, photographic or on other media, are very welcome.

See also Clackmannanshire Archives which also collects personal papers and records of local organisations.