Indiana Room

The Indiana Room is a seperate room at the Monroe County Public Library that is open to the public and contains a large amount of information on local and state history as well as geneological data. It is located on the second floor of the library in the south-west corner.

Local information available

• Lots of books about Bloomington and the rest of the state, divided up by county.
• Books on Genealogy.
• Newspapers on microfiche/microfilm
• Telephone books
• Bloomington City directories going back to 1900.
• Aerial photographs of Monroe County.
• Maps going back to 1820.
• Fire insurance maps with diagrams of buildings going back to 1883.
• Public displays, photographs and artifacts.

Newspapers available on microfilm

This is a nearly complete list of the newspapers that are available on microfilm

• The Bedford Daily Democrat - 1922-1924
• The Bedford Daily Mail - 1929
• The Bedford Daily Times - 1925-1928
• The Bloomfield News - 1901
• The Bloomington Courier - 1876
• The Bloomington Daily Telephone - 1899, 1942
• The Bloomington Evening World - 1905, 1914, 1918, 1942
• The Bloomington Indiana World - 1896
• The Bloomington newsletter - 1855, 1856
• The Bloomington Post - 1840
• The Bloomington Republican - 1862
• The Bloomington World - 1894, 1896, 1909
• The Columbus Herald - 1885
• The Crawford County Democrat - 1826
• The Ellettsville Farm - 1932
• The Indiana Daily Student - 1934
• The Indiana Times - 1917
• The Indianapolis News - 1917
• The Medora Review - 1910
• The Mitchell Tribune - 1925, 1933, 1939
• The National Farm - 1928
• The New York Ledger - 1874, 1869
• The Optimist - 1923-1924
• Owen County Journal - 1904
• Owen County People - 1879-1881
• The Philadelphia Public Ledger - 1836
• The Religious Times - 1854
• The Republic Bicentennaial Scrapbook - July 2nd, 1976
• The Republican Progress - 1877
• The Seymour Republican - 1903, 1916
• The Telephone (Bloomington) - 1878, 1931
• The Weekly Telephone (Bloomington) - 1880

External links

• Indiana Room webpage on the MCPL website