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The State Library's Changes to Indiana Public Library Districts (legal file, updated December 2023), read in full; the library's history timeline
The obvious date is wrong, and this section prints the correction with its evidence. A first framing — carried in the county sequence's own earlier builds — ties the system's county turn to 1990, when the South Bend Public Library took its present name, St. Joseph County Public Library. The State Library's legal file of district changes, read in full, lists for this system exactly one expansion entry: "South Bend expanded into Union Twp. 1990" — the expansion that produced the Lakeville branch, opened that December. There is no entry for Clay Township at any date, no county-contract establishment, no merger. And Clay's service predates 1990 in any case: the Clay Branch opened in the township in 1977, and the branch was a going concern with an assistant manager by 1982–85. So the proved state is: Clay Township is in the district, by tax; it was in service by 1977; the 1990 turn was the renaming plus Union Township only; and the date and instrument of Clay's own entry were not reached in the state file, the library's timeline, or any referendum or contract record the searches returned (G-LB-1 — settlers: Waterson's 1994 history and the board minutes of the expansion era). No mechanism is asserted: not a referendum, not a contract, not the school-district theory that suggests itself — each is a hypothesis until a carrier holds it.