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1986 – present
The branch first opened in 1986 at 105 West Center Street, then the system's newest branch; it stands today at 105 East Market Street, and the year it moved is not stated by any carrier reached. The founding fact rests on the system's own history page, read whole: under the entry "1986 — The North Liberty Branch," the St. Joseph County Public Library's history records that the branch "first opened at 105 W. Center Street" and was then "the Library's newest branch." The page adds that it "served North Liberty Township" — a wording this build quotes and does not adopt, because no township of that name exists: the township is Liberty Township in the town's own comprehensive plan and in the state library's district guide alike, and the system's phrasing is printed here as its own. No second carrier confirming the 1986 date was opened; the date stands on the library's own record, stated so. The present branch stands at 105 East Market Street, North Liberty, IN 46554, phone 574-656-3664 — the system's locations page and the town's 2015 comprehensive plan agreeing — and the board's own record shows the branch a going concern at that address, its meeting room scheduled for board business on 19 May 2025. The move between the two addresses is bracketed, not dated, and the bracket prints whole: the town's 2015 plan lists "construction of the North Liberty Branch of the St. Joseph County Public Library" among the "changes of note in North Liberty since 1995," and the system's retirement notice for its executive director credits her with involvement in "construction of the North Liberty, Lakeville, Francis, German, and Centre Branches" across a tenure as assistant director from 1996 and executive director from 2015. On the carriers read, the Market Street building's construction falls somewhere in the span 1995–2022; no carrier opened states the year the branch moved, the year the building was built or opened, its size, or any dedication. The move banks as a named gap (G-LIB-2), its settlers the system's board minutes and capital records, the Tribune archive, and the county's property records for 105 East Market Street.