Indiana State Library

Rachel Heger, Supervisor of the Indiana Collection of the Indiana State Library spoke to Greenfield Kiwanis on January 10 about various aspects of the State Library.  She informed the Kiwanians that the library serves four distinct functions.  Genealogical research is about people, Reference and Research serves the state government and public, Manuscript preservation and archival maintain documents, and the Indiana collection catalogs information about places and things. 

As supervisor of the Indiana collection Ms. Heger is responsible for a collection that contains maps and atlases; state laws from 1816 to the present; Indiana Newspapers from 1804; State agency reports and publications; histories, biographies, magazines, and journals; and manuscripts, broadsides, and photographs.  The collection houses numerous databases.  The newspaper collection includes over 100,000 reels of microfilm.  The collection also houses city directories, cookbooks, and high school yearbooks. 

The library is located at 315 West Ohio Street in Indianapolis across the street from the Indiana Statehouse and is open Monday through Saturday.  Hours and further information are available by calling 317.232.3684 or on the internet at www.library.IN.gov.