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304 SOUTH MAIN STREET, SOUTH BEND · (574) 282-4621 · LOCAL.HISTORY@SJCPL.ORG
What it is: the county's public archive of first resort, and for this build the most useful seat after the town's own. Its Local & Family History Services hold the county's archival collections — by appointment; the Clubs, Societies & Organizations Collection (1891–2015, some forty-three boxes) and the Chamber of Commerce Collection (1906–2020) named in its guides are the class of material a county's associational life survives in — and its digital arm, Michiana Memory (michianamemory.sjcpl.org), is the county's memory online: the St. Joseph County maps and atlases, the postcards, the high-school yearbooks, the civil-rights and African American history collections, and above all the South Bend Tribune's photographic negatives, 1937–1990, ten thousand and more, digitized with the Tribune's copyright expressly retained. For New Carlisle the library is also a named settler in its own right: for the county's pamphlet file, for the newspaper microfilm the digitized bands miss, and for the atlas and map originals behind the digital copies, this is where the record physically is.
Principal sources: SJCPL Local & Family History Services and Michiana Memory, as reached and read first-hand (collection guides and collection descriptions).