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Indiana State Library / State Data Center, Technical Guide for Library Redistricting (updated June 2026); the library's card-eligibility record
The district is not the county. The state's redistricting guide states the shape exactly: the system serves Centre, Clay, German, Greene, Liberty, Portage, Union, and Warren townships — all by tax — eight of the county's thirteen townships, with Harris, Lincoln, Madison, Olive, and Penn outside it (their residents hold paid, PLAC, or reciprocal cards; the reciprocal set names Harris, Penn, Olive, and Lincoln). Roseland's entitlement runs through its township: the town is an incorporated place inside Clay Township, and Clay is a by-tax township, so a Roseland resident holds a free resident card on the same footing as any South Bend resident — the 2026 card-eligibility reporting names Clay in the eligible list, and the library's own guest-card page defines paid cards solely as the option for those outside "the eight townships served." The town's smallness costs its people nothing here: the library tax they pay through the township is the whole of their ticket, and it has never depended on the town's own government at all.