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The building is named in honor of Lorenzo de Zavala, a statesman in Texas history. Built in 1959 and inaugurated in 1961, [3] the building houses the headquarters of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, and is located east of and adjacent to the Texas State Capitol, and made of the same pink granite as the capitol building. [4]
The Tyrrell Historical Library is a public library in Beaumont, Texas. Originally built in 1903 to serve as the First Baptist Church, the building displays a mix of Richardsonian Romanesque and Victorian Gothic architectures, with pointed arch windows and quatrefoils, and all of its original stained glass. The building became vacant in 1923 ...
The Central Library also offers its users free Internet access at the computer lab or with WiFi. [5] Computer classes are available to promote information literacy. The Genealogy, Local History and Archives unit is housed within the Central Library; the Archives are also the official municipal archives of the City of Fort Worth. [6]
Library chronology 1919-1995, Library news, United Nations library (Geneva), no. 1, spring 1995 Bibliothèque des Nations Unies à Genève , Hors-Texte, Bulletin de l'AGBD, no.36, 1992/1 Heinz A. Waldner, Documentation Activities of the United Nations Library at Geneva , Information Processing and Management, 1978, 14 (3–4), p. 135–40.
Sophienburg was left abandoned until 1926, when New Braunfels' residents purchased the site of the original fortress; in 1933, they established a museum chartered by the state of Texas and a library. [2] [3] After the construction of multiple other public libraries in the city, the library was converted into the city's archive. [2]
The current Texas State Librarian is Gloria Meraz, appointed by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission on August 27, 2021. Meraz is the first person of color and first Hispanic woman to serve as State Librarian of Texas since the position was created in 1909. She succeeded previous Texas State Librarian, Mark Smith. [3]
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Harris County Public Library (HCPL) is a public library system serving Harris County, Texas, United States. Since its inception in 1921, HCPL has grown from a system of small book stations in homes, stores and post offices to 26 branch libraries serving a population of over 1.3 million users in unincorporated areas countywide.