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as of November 2026
The system's support body appears in its own current pages as the St. Joe County Public Library Foundation and in its board's own minutes as the Friends of the Library; no carrier read separates two bodies, and the naming conflict prints whole. The system's current bookstore page states the present form: "The St. Joe County Public Library Foundation is a nonprofit organization that engages in advocacy and philanthropy to support the mission and vision of the St. Joe County Public Library," and its Library Foundation Bookstore, on Main Library's second floor, sells the system's withdrawn books and donated materials at posted prices — adult nonfiction and fiction at two dollars, paperbacks at a quarter, children's and teen books at a dollar. The board's own minutes, read whole for January 2023 and December 2025, run the same business under the other name: consent agendas "Declare Excess Withdrawn Library Materials & Computers donated to the Friends of the Library"; a 2024 news item gives the "Friends of the Library Bookstore" new hours and notes that book donations could be dropped at any branch; and the May 2025 minutes use "Friends of the Library Foundation" for the consent item while separately reporting the "SJCPL Foundation" hosting a book fair that raised $6,000 and a hundred donated books. A national case study of 2022 describes "The Friends of the St. Joe County Public Library, a nonprofit membership organization" in the same advocacy-and-philanthropy formula the Foundation's own page uses, and adds the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County's grant support — a $10 million commitment in 2019 toward the $36 million Main Library and Community Learning Center project, with $4 million from the City of South Bend. "Friends of the Library," "Friends of the Library Foundation," "Friends of the St. Joe County Public Library," and "St. Joe County Public Library Foundation" all appear across the carriers; no carrier read explains a rename or a two-body structure. This build uses the system's current own-page name, Foundation, and prints the Friends naming in the board record beside it. No carrier opened names a Friends group for the North Liberty Branch specifically; branch-level support reached only the system-wide fact that donations may be dropped at any branch. A North Liberty Friends presence is unproven on this record and banks as a named gap (G-LIB-10) — stated, when it is stated, as "no branch Friends group is named in the system record," not as proof none exists.