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SJCPL Collection Development Policy and Local & Family History departmental record; Michiana Memory (SJCPL / IU South Bend); The History Museum, South Bend
The town's working archive is the St. Joseph County Public Library's Local & Family History department at Main Library — its charter is county-wide (collections that "document the history, communities, and people of St. Joseph County"), and its distinctive holdings are the clipping files: folders of newspaper clippings collected by librarians over decades on local people, places, events and buildings, to which even the department's card catalogs now point — for a town too small for books, the clipping file is the archive. Its map case is the one finding aid that names this ground's sheets directly (the 1863 Shober map; the 1917 section map; the 1928–29 county road maps), available in person except where Michiana Memory has digitized them. Michiana Memory itself (the library with IU South Bend, launched August 2015) is a photo-and-map carrier for this town — the Tribune photographs, the county maps and atlases — not a text carrier: no Roseland newspaper and no Roseland document collection stands in it. The History Museum (the Northern Indiana Historical Society, founded 1867) holds the region's largest general archive — some 600,000 items for the St. Joseph River valley, including since 2012 the Jeanne Denham Collection, eighty-one boxes compiled by the county genealogical society's first president as the county's unofficial historian — at appointment access; no Roseland-specific collection was named in the index portions reached, and its Roseland yield is unproven rather than absent.