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The State's Houses: IARA, the State Library, and SHAARD

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The Indiana Archives and Records Administration, the Indiana State Library — and the restricted database

What it is: three state doors, in three states of openness. The Archives' published instruments served directly: the GAR Department of Indiana finding aid, its post indexes by county and number worked by the Veterans leg, and the closed-schools database from which the Hospitals section drew its negative — eleven transferred-record schools stand in it, and Mishawaka's nursing school is not among them, so that school's closing year stands open at exactly that strength. The Archives' Statement of Service Cards — some 135,800 statewide — are the named county pull for the town's First World War served total, unmade. The State Library carries the Sanborn checklist, the county-holdings guides (the Bridges catalog record of Part one), the 2026 directors list, and, on microfilm, the Mishawaka Polk volumes the Dealerships leg names for the war-years census of stores.

Its standing, from this build's experience: the state's published finding aids and databases are this build's working layer; the state's files — the Board of State Charities' licensing records among them — stand named as settling sources, unpulled.

Where it fails: at SHAARD, the Historic Preservation and Archaeology division's database: the settling source for the Tribes and Architecture sections' deepest questions, it is restricted — access by the division's process, and for archaeological material only in consultation with the tribes. The build names it and does not pretend to have read it; the restriction is a fact about the record, printed as one.

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Source: The State's Houses: IARA, the State Library, and SHAARD, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/mishawaka/sources/state-s-houses-iara-the-state-library-and-shaard/