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self-published, North Liberty, Indiana, 1978 · location unproven
The one book ever written about this town alone is attested by exactly one bibliography and held, so far as seven catalogs can say, by no library anywhere: the hunt for it is documented whole, because the negative is the finding.Genesis of North Liberty. North Liberty, Indiana: Self-published. 1978." No pagination, no catalog number, no subject data accompanies the citation — the nomination's preparer had it, or had its citation, in 2012, and that is the whole of the world's printed knowledge of the book. The hunt ran by name through WorldCat, the county library system's catalog, the Indiana State Library's catalog and its published St. Joseph County holdings guide, the FamilySearch catalog, Archive.org, HathiTrust, and Google Books. No catalog record, no holding, and no digitized copy surfaced in any of them. The state library's own county list is the strongest single negative datum: read whole, it details the county's town histories — New Carlisle's of 1956, Lakeville's, Osceola's of 1988, Roseland's, Mishawaka's — and carries no Saltzgaber entry and no North Liberty town history of any kind. Every positive hit the searching returned was a trap of the familiar kind: Joan Alt Belknap's Sesquicentennial History of North Liberty, Iowa (1996), a different town in a different state, excluded by name wherever it appears in this section. The method limit prints honestly: the catalog interfaces themselves are script-driven, and from this seat they were tested through their indexed records and published holdings lists rather than through live form submission — the state library's holdings-guide read is a true first-hand read of the library's own list, and the other catalogs stand at the strength stated. Pass 1's gap on the copy location therefore sharpens rather than closes: the book's existence is attested, its location unproven, and it heads this section's not-digitized pull list. A hometown centennial book that its own county's libraries never catalogued is itself a fact about how small towns keep their pasts; this build prints the fact and keeps the hunt open.