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1875–PRESENT · THE SHELF SWEPT, NOT SAMPLED
The local shelf is swept here in its three parts. Picture books first — and the shelf's strongest picture book belongs, once again, to a graded neighbour: Susan Choi's Camp Tiger (2019, illustrated by John Rocco), a South Bend-born author's one picture book, shelved in the novelists' article above at her graded strength; beside it the South Bend-resident April Pulley Sayre's photo-illustrated picture books, among them Thank You, Earth (2018). No picture book by an author seated in the CDP was found in the WorldCat / publisher sweep. Museum books second: the county's keeping is itself a publication record — the Jeanne Denham Collection at The History Museum, eighty-one boxes whose published index (South Bend Area Genealogical Society) is the shelf's catalogue, and inside it the ground's own small books, among them a booklet the index lists exactly as “Booklet: History of St. Joseph's Farm Granger, Indiana” (Box 29), and the autographed Goff township history of the first article. Third, the small-press and self-published record: the WorldCat search for a Granger, Indiana imprint, the SJCPL Michiana Memory sweep and The History Museum's book catalogue were run, and they return the township history, the Gazette's columns and the farm booklet above — and no trade or small-press book carrying a Granger imprint stands in the open record reached. That remainder is a named gap, printed as one: the self-published shelf of a suburb — church and school cookbooks, subdivision and parish anniversary books, family genealogies printed for kin — is exactly the class that open catalogues capture worst, and its settling source is the St. Joseph County Public Library's and MPHPL's local-history vertical files and The History Museum's uncatalogued ephemera, searched in person. What open sources can carry is carried above, whole; what they cannot is named, not sampled into a pretence of coverage.
Sources: Publisher records for Camp Tiger (2019) and Thank You, Earth (2018); SBAGS, the Jeanne Denham Collection index, Boxes 18 and 29 as catalogued; WorldCat Granger-imprint and SJCPL Michiana Memory searches, November 2026, for the imprint negative and the named gap.