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INDIANAPOLIS · THE STATE SEAT, REACHED CONSTANTLY
What it is: the state-level seat this section leans on more than any other, and mostly through three of its own publications, each read first-hand. The first is the St. Joseph County holdings guide — the standing map of the county's print shelf, from which this section takes the cataloging of Goodspeed, Anderson & Cooley, Stoll, the DAR volume, Watt & Wade, the Tribune folios, the newspaper vital-statistics index (1831–1912, two volumes, Indiana Reference) and the biographical index to Chapman: the guide is a source about sources, and this section's shelf articles are its digest. The second is the Sanborn holdings list, which fixes the town's five map editions to the library's microfilm (Part Two). The third is the original-print newspaper list, searched whole, in which no New Carlisle title stands (Part Three). Around those publications stand the collections they index: the Indiana Collection itself, the newspaper microfilm program, and the digital arms — Indiana Memory, the state's digital library, and Hoosier State Chronicles, its newspaper program. The State Library is, for a town of this size, what the county library is for the county: the seat where the un-digitized record physically waits, with its catalogues as the working map. Its guides are written for exactly this build's errands, and this section's pull list is half-addressed to its shelves.
Principal sources: Indiana State Library, St. Joseph County county-history holdings guide; Sanborn holdings list; original-print newspaper holdings list; Indiana Memory and Hoosier State Chronicles program pages — all read first-hand.