Milestones

What opened, what was published, and when.

This page lists the milestones of the Library site, newest first. News about school trust lands themselves is in the Newsroom. The full week-by-week build log — every update, in its original wording — is preserved in the site changelog in the Librarians’ Room.

• September 15–29, 2026 — Four more state appendices. Appendices for South Dakota, Texas, Minnesota and Wisconsin were published in the School Trust Lands Legal Reference Manual, bringing to fourteen the states that have one. Each was built by reading in full the opinions the Library holds for that state, and each flags, rather than asserts, what it could not resolve from a primary source. Building them also turned up descriptions on the Library's own pages that the opinions do not support; those are entries 023–025, 034 and 035 in the corrections log.
• September 10–29, 2026 — The Library's account of the cases checked against the opinions. Thirteen corrections were logged in twenty days, numbered 023 through 035: dissents published as holdings, quotations not in the opinions they were attributed to, remedies given to courts that never ordered them. One of them, entry 033, found that corrections had reached the Library's prose and never reached the data files its pages are generated from. Each is set out in the corrections log.
• September 11–16, 2026 — More ways into the Zybach Collection. The September 13 recording in which Bob Zybach and the Library's founder talk through how his collection came in was published as How a Collection Comes In: The Conversation, beside the account of that arrival published September 8; on September 14 and 16 Bob Zybach corrected names and a phrase in its transcript, at entries 026 and 027 of the corrections log. The fifteen Soap Creek Valley oral histories got a searchable series index. The two Alberta Street neighborhood surveys, made twenty-three years apart, got a guide that sets them side by side with the pages each reading comes from. The collection's guided trails got a reading notebook for keeping and comparing notes along the way. And on September 13 the Library obtained a preservation copy of the tape side carrying Bob Zybach's 1991 conversation with Marvin Rowley, which it keeps in private storage; that reading page now carries a two-minute excerpt cut from the copy, in place of links to an outside service.
• Thursday September 10, 2026 — The board acted; three seats posted. By unanimous written consent the Library's board adopted the Participate documents as Version 1, directed the federal filing, and set a date for the presidency to pass from the founder; and its two directors with no interest in either advocacy organization accepted, on the Library's side, the alliance with Oregon Advocates for School Trust Lands and approved an alliance with the national organization that takes effect only if its board adopts the resolution before it, the founder disclosing his interest and taking no part. The postings for two Director seats and the Law Librarian are at Open seats; the full entry is on the organizational record.
• Tuesday September 8, 2026 — The Participate section opened. Six of the Library's own documents — a six-month report, a three-year plan, the case for keeping this record, the invitations and their five cards, an account of one collection arriving, and a one-page timeline — were published at Participate, each as web text and as two PDFs. On the same day the Library corrected its published description of its federal tax status on three pages; see corrections log entry 022.
• Thursday August 13, 2026 — Reader pages reorganized. The Library reorganized its reader pages to lead with the subject — the land, the money, the law, the cases, the states. The Library's description of itself and its methods moved to the Librarians’ Room. No factual content changed.
• August 12–13, 2026 — A full audit of the Library. 229 errors found across 441 pages; the findings are reported in full in corrections log entry 013.
• Wednesday August 12, 2026 — The preview notices came off. The booklet was reissued as a second edition the same day.
• Monday August 10, 2026 — The booklet published. The Library in brief — a 20-page portrait of America's School Trust Library — published August 10, 2026.
• Monday August 10, 2026 — The July 24 ruling published. The letter opinion of July 24, 2026, which granted the State summary judgment in Coos County 24CV38372, is published in full; see Oregon's current case and corrections log entry 009.
• Monday August 10, 2026 — Site consolidation. The Library's two sites became one, at schooltrusts.org.
• Sunday August 9, 2026 — Two ledgers, merged and renumbered. The Library's two public corrections ledgers were merged on August 9, 2026 and the entries were renumbered — corrections log entry 008.
• Monday August 3, 2026 — The founding board seated. On August 3, 2026 the founding board was seated and adopted the Library's governing instruments by unanimous written consent; the full dated record of every filing and board action is the organizational record.
• Tuesday July 21, 2026 — Incorporated. Oregon accepted the Articles of Incorporation on July 21, 2026, creating an Oregon nonprofit public benefit corporation (Registry No. 259005891).
• Sunday May 3, 2026 — The Library named. The site was renamed from "Schools of the Republic" to "America's School Trust Library." (The book stays titled Schools of the Republic.)
• Early May 2026 — The site opened. The public library site at schooltrusts.org opened in early May 2026, with three rooms live: Reading Room, Atlas, Counting House.
• Late February 2026 — The research began. The research behind this library — the booklet, the Sacred Compact white paper, the Vision essay, the per-state research — began in late February 2026.

The complete week-by-week history, in its original wording, is the site changelog. The Library's charitable registration, incorporation, and board formation are recorded on the Organizational record and in Building This Library.