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Additions in the 2000s include McGovern-Stella Link Neighborhood Library (2005), HPL Express Southwest (2008), [19] and HPL Express Discovery Green (2008). [20] A new building for Looscan Neighborhood Library opened in 2007, replacing a 1956 structure. [21] The Jones Building closed for renovations in 2006 and reopened in 2008.
The McGovern-Stella Link Branch of the Houston Public Library is located at 7405 Stella Link Road. [60] The library, named after physician John P. McGovern , [ 61 ] opened on January 8, 2005. [ 62 ] [ 63 ] The Houston Business Journal awarded the library a Landmark Award for Community Impact in 2006.
The modern day Stella Link Road in Houston gets its name from Stella, Texas. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It began as a rural road running parallel to the railroad that linked West University, Texas to Stella. Today Stella Link Road is a busy urban street that still makes that link to the locale formerly known as Stella.
The TMC Library is the only major medical and scientific library serving the entire 1,345 sq. acre Texas Medical Center (TMC) campus and its non-profit institutions. It offers librarian services, and provides biomedical information for education and research activities to take place, and study space for students for these schools to help ...
The Houston Independent School District operates area public schools. [3] Shearn Elementary School and a park are in Section 4. [4] [5] All houses are zoned to Shearn Elementary School and Pershing Middle School. [6] [7] Pershing-zoned students have the option to apply for the regular program at Pin Oak Middle School in the city of Bellaire. [8]
Southwest Houston is a region in Houston, Texas, United States. The area is considered to be from Texas State Highway 6, south of Westpark Tollway to north of U.S. Route 90. Many Section 8 (housing) complexes are located in Southwest Houston. [1] Hurricane Katrina refugees came to the area in 2005. [2]
The origin of the name Brays Bayou is unclear, and the alternate spellings Braes and Bray's have been used throughout its history, most prominently in Braeswood Place, a neighborhood which straddles the bayou southwest of Rice University, and Braeswood Boulevard, which runs along the river between Interstate 610 and Texas State Highway 288.
In 2014, the Midland Centennial Library won the American Library Association and the International Interior Design Association (ALA/IIDA) Library Interior Design Award for Public Libraries over 30,000 sq. ft. [11] Also in 2014, John Trischitti III, the Director of the Midland Public Library, won Librarian of the Year from the Texas Library Association. [12]