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Libraries — Indian Village, Indiana
The leg's verdict, stated first
The state library-district guide (2026 vintages), the library's own current carriers, and the town's budget-order record, November 2026
Indian Village's library service runs through its township, not through the town. The St. Joseph County Public Library district is drawn by township and taxed by township; Clay Township is one of its eight taxed townships, and…
The district's shape, and the town's exact position in it
Indiana State Data Center, Technical Guide for Library Redistricting (2026), in its June and September vintages — the pair registered as…
The district serves eight townships, all by tax: Centre, Clay, German, Greene, Liberty, Portage, Union and Warren. The state guide that says so was returned in two current vintages — updated June 2026 and updated September 2026 …
Clay Township's entry: the 1990 framing corrected, the date still open
The State Library's district-changes file (updated 16 Dec 2023), read in full in the sibling pass and corroborated; the library's own…
Clay service is proven by 1977; how and when the township entered the district is not reached. The State Library's district-changes file — the legal file of expansions, mergers and transfers — carries exactly one expansion for…
The founding and Main, at position size
The library's own history timeline, read in full; the tax-fight item carried from the sibling pass as a labelled searched negative
The system the town rides on began as a reading room. The South Bend Library and Reading Room Association opened in 1873; a Board of Education resolution in 1888 made it a public library, and it opened in 1889 on the fourth floor…
The directors, complete to the current holder
The succession as dug in the sibling pass, corroborated item by item against the library's timeline read in full; the current holder…
The succession runs unbroken: Evelyn Humphreys 1889–1903; Virginia M. Tutt 1903–1927; Ethel Baker 1927–1952; Roger B. Francis 1952–1977 — the director for whom this township's branch is named; Donald J. Napoli 1977–2015, the…
The Francis Branch, whole: the town's branch
The branch opened in 1977 as the Clay Branch — named at birth for the township it was built to serve — and was later renamed for Director Roger B. Francis. The present building stands at 52655 N. Ironwood Road, South Bend 46635…
The bookmobile: the town's probable, unproven, first service
The library's timeline and the Indiana Memory record of the Readmobile brochure, read; the town test produced by the searches described
The library's first bookmobile, in 1953, "served residents who were not served by a branch" — some $8,000, 2,000 books, Studebaker-built. The third vehicle, the Readmobile, debuted in 1996 and was decommissioned in the 2000s, a…
Local & Family History: the town's service point for its own past
The department's own handout and the board-approved policies, at pointer strength for holdings — classes named, no town inventory claimed
The library's local-history department is where this town's paper past is served from. Local & Family History Services sits on Main's third floor, 304 S. Main Street (hours Monday–Thursday 9 a.m.–7 p.m., Friday–Saturday 9–5)…
The negatives: no building in the town, no library of its own, no Carnegie
The system's complete present list and its timeline's branch foundings, read; the Carnegie item carried from the sibling pass at its…
The system's own lists carry no Indian Village address. The complete present list — Main and nine branches — and the timeline's every named branch founding (River Park 1920, Tutt 1928, Western 1939, Clay/Francis 1977, North…