Indiana Room

The Indiana Room brings to mind traditional libraries with its wood-paneled walls, framing glass-fronted books cabinets, coffered ceiling, inlaid cork tile floor and a polished black granite fireplace. The materials used and architectural details are reminiscent of an earlier age, and create a fitting backdrop to house our historical collections.

The Indiana Room collection gathers together and preserves information about the greater Evansville area and state of Indiana. Our goal is to make accessible information that will present a clear picture and answer questions about local people, businesses, government, organizations, buildings and houses, and events that will be remembered by a number of people. Current materials that will be of future local historical value are collected as well.

Because of the rarity of much of its materials, the collection is non-circulating, except for audio-visual materials. Materials from this collection that are indexed in our online catalog have a location of "Ce2 Indiana collection." Ask Reference Services staff for help to access these materials.

Using the Indiana Room