Records generated by Middletown research include a plethora of publications and writings. Archives and Special Collections holds a large collection of articles, working papers, excerpts from monographs, research papers, student papers, dissertations, theses, bibliographies, books and unpublished drafts related to the diverse research that has been done using Middletown as a source.

The records of Middletown III research in the late 1970s includes survey forms, survey notes, working papers, computer tapes (or data archives), problem identification sheets, and coding forms. The files of information are divided into the following categories: American Family; Women; Government and Service; Getting a Living; Religion; Community Survey; High School Survey; Black Middletown.

Videotapes of each of the PBS program on Middletown done in the 1980s are available in Archives and Special Collections. In addition, the Archives has the scripts, editor's notes, and hundreds of hours of film footage that was shot in preparing the programs.

Archives and Special Collections contains oral history tapes, videotapes, transcripts, and other documentation on two Middletown projects: "Working in Middletown," interviews and essays from a 1976 Indiana Committee for the Humanities project on "getting a living in Muncie, Indiana," inspired by the Lynd's studies and Studs Terkel's Working; and "Black Middletown," a study done by researchers from the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University in 1981. The Archives has tapes and documentation on other Middletown-related oral history projects, including Aging in Muncie, Women in World War II and interviews with World War I and World War II Veterans.  

Digitized oral history interviews from Archives and Special Collections are available in the Digital Media Repository.  The Middletown Digital Oral History Collection includes interviews with African Americans, Catholic and Jewish residents of Muncie and labor union leaders. 

For information on these and other Middletown resources, contact the Archives and Special Collections, Bracken Library 210, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306, telephone, (765) 285-5078, or e-mail libarchives@bsu.edu.