The school libraries, at the record's true size

1976–present · what the record carries, and what it does not

The finding:What does stand is a place in larger courses. Mishawaka High School's library was renewed as one named item in the school's four-year modernization of 1976–1980 — "the auditorium, cafeteria, gymnasium, library, administrative offices, industrial education wing, hallways, classrooms and stadium" — at just under four million dollars, in the high school's own history as the schools record prints it; the library inside the 1924 building was thus rebuilt in the same years the public library across town was becoming Mishawaka-Penn. Beyond that, the schools' libraries appear in this build chiefly by what escaped them into the public keeping: the schools' printed memory — the Miskodeed yearbooks from 1924, Marian's Madrigals, Penn's Bittersweets — survives in the public library's bound and stamped copies and in the digital archive built from them, as the collections and newspapers articles print. Marian High School's library and the Penn-Harris-Madison schools' libraries stand in no source reached beyond that. The settling sources for a future pass are named for what they are: the two school corporations' board minutes and annual reports, the Alltold and the Lance

Sources:

1. The schools record of this history — the Mishawaka High School modernization of 1976–1980, the library among its named items, from the school's own history.
2. The newspapers and collections records of this history — the yearbook survivals in the public library's copies, as printed there.