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The build's home archive: the Heritage Room, the film cabinets, and the library's own published record
What it is: the town's public library is the archive this history lives in. The Libraries leg read its Heritage Room page first-hand in November 2026: the room's line runs Heritage Center (opened 1998) to its closing in March 2020 to the Heritage Room of 2021; its Five Industries cases display the town's makers — Ball Band, Dodge, Wheelabrator, Bendix, Kamm & Schellinger — with the Jernegan and Powell exhibits beside them and De Kever artifact loans among its holdings; the Indiana Library Passport runs through it. Its Local & Family History materials page states the holdings by kind, the newspaper film among them (Part two). Among its online resources stand Mishawaka Memories and Michiana Memory, the latter carrying the Ball Band newsletters the Industrial leg used. The library's own official record is also a source: the State Board of Accounts' examination reports of the library (2010–11, 2012–14, 2016–18) and their schedules of officials carry the directors' line, and the State Library's directors list of 2026, current at 31 July 2026, names its director still in post.
Its standing, from this build's experience: the library is simultaneously this build's subject, its archive and its instrument — the holdings list of Part two is its publication, the film is its cabinets, the yearbooks at archive.org are its copies. The 1957 anniversary pamphlet it holds, cited in the Carnegie nomination's bibliography, is the settling source for the two unnamed 1957 branches.
Where it fails: its board minutes — the settling source for the directors' and branches' open questions — were named and not pulled, and its local-history files are a room's files: consulted by description in this build, not swept.
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