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THE LIBRARY'S OWN RULES
The anchor: The public's own computing in Mishawaka stands in the Libraries leg, whose history of the Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library this entry does not retell; what belongs here is the service's documented present form, from the library's own governing text. Children's use stands on the same two hours, with parental permission. The library's own digital shelf stands beside the machines: the Mishawaka Memories archive — photographs, letters and other media of the city's history, open at any hour — and the Heritage Center's gathered record of genealogy files, digital archives, yearbooks, microfilm and historical newspapers, held since 2020 in the downtown building's lower level, all carried whole in the Libraries leg. When public computing began at the library — the year the first patron terminals stood in the building — the record reached for this section does not date; the gap is named, its settling source the library board's own minutes, and the undated service is printed at the size its own policy proves: a standing, card-carrying, two-hours-a-day public system, in the city's own buildings, today.
Sources:
- The banked Libraries section of this build — the library whole: the Heritage Center (from 1998) and its collections, the Mishawaka Memories digital archive, the branches and their stamped yearbooks.