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AS OF NOVEMBER 2026 · THE STATE DIRECTORY'S ENTRY, UPDATED JULY 21, 2025
The library as it stands: Roanna Hooton directing, seven trustees governing, one building at 408 South Bray Street open fifty-three hours a week — including Sunday afternoons. The Indiana State Library's 2026 directory carries the institution in its present form: open Monday through Thursday 9:00 to 7:00, Friday noon to 5:00, Saturday 1:00 to 5:00, and Sunday 1:00 to 5:00 — a seven-day library, a thing many city systems no longer keep — with its board meeting on the third Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. as the directory prints it, and its questions taken at questions@ncpl.lib.in.us. Around the director stands the structure this section has traced: an assistant director, Amy Schrock, in the role since at least the 2015 minutes and twice the library's interim director; a Friends of the Library, incorporated with federal exemption dated May 2015, whose volunteers work the library's programs — the October 2023 minutes show them staffing the Spooky Night crowd beside the staff; and a long-range plan (2022–2025) the director's own column describes the staff still working as it ran. The newest chapter is already dated: the board's October 2023 minutes show the library writing in support of the school corporation's federal grant application and opening a conversation with the community-engagement staff of the General Motors project on State Road 2 — the battery-plant development at the township's edge arriving, as every large thing now arrives in this township, at the library's door as well. And the oldest chapter has one more line coming: the Carnegie Corporation announced in 2025 that it would give $10,000 to every library that is itself a Carnegie library or descended from one, the money expected in January 2026. This library is descended from a Carnegie building in the direct line — grant, building, and unbroken institution. Whether its gift has landed is a fact for the board's 2026 minutes; the descent that qualifies it is a fact of this record, and it closes the leg where it began: a $9,000 grant in 1917, still paying out.
Principal sources: Indiana State Library, Public Library Directory 2026 (the library's entry, updated July 21, 2025) and 2026 Directors Contact Information (as of July 31, 2026); board minutes of October 17, 2023 (read whole); the federal nonprofit record for the Friends of the Library (exemption May 2015); Indiana State Library blog, the Carnegie Corporation gift announcement (2025; gifts expected January 2026).