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The New Carlisle–Olive Township Public Library: the town's own library, and a named gap

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408 SOUTH BRAY STREET, NEW CARLISLE · (574) 654-3046 · NCPL.LIB.IN.US

What it is: the archive a researcher reaches first — the town and township's own public library, seated on Bray Street at the edge of the historic district, the natural holder of the town's pamphlet file, its yearbooks, its newspaper file if one survives in town, and the Watt & Wade first editions that were gifts before they were sources. This pass states its holdings at the strength the record carries, and the record carries almost nothing: the library's published output reached in these searches is its general programming and reading-list material, and no source reached enumerates a local-history collection, a genealogy room, or a newspaper holding for this library. That is printed here as what it is — a NAMED GAP, not a verdict: the absence is in the web record, not necessarily in the building. The settler is the library itself — its catalog and its staff, at the seat above — and the question stands at the head of the local line of the pull list, because the answer reorganizes this whole part: if the town's paper file or its pamphlet collection survives anywhere in town, this building is where it survives.

Principal sources: the library's own published record as reached (its site and directory records, read first-hand); the gap and its settler as stated.

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Source: The New Carlisle–Olive Township Public Library: the town's own library, and a named gap, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/new-carlisle/sources/new-carlisleolive-township-public-library-the-town-s-own/