Texas Library Association

TLA is the largest state library association in the U.S. Its 7,000+ members are employed in all types of libraries: academic, public, school, and special.

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“No one publicized libraries then. They were like church: you either went or you didn’t go; it was a matter of conscience and whether or not you wanted to be President.”

Mademoiselle magazine, September 1943

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11 Charts That Accurately Sum Up Being A Book Nerd

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The dog-eared pages one is so true. 

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LGBT children's books debated at Hood County library

"My Princess Boy" and "This Day in June" are both aimed at helping children understand the LBGT community

Hood County librarian Courtney Kincaid defends the inclusion of two children's books aimed at helping children have a better understanding of LGBT issues.

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Librarian heads up project to encourage children to read

In an effort to reduce the drop in reading levels during the summer months, especially in low income families, Robert E. Lee librarian Kelli Bond is spearheading a program to get books in the hands of children through the local food pantry, Volunteers In Service to Others (VISTO).

Bond attended an Austin meeting of the Texas Library Association (TLA) in April where the idea was discussed on how to maintain reading levels over the summer months.

“At the TLA meeting, some of us attended the session about the importance of summer reading,” Bond said. “TLA showed a lot of research about summer reading levels.”

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Oh, Those Clever Librarians and Their #Bookface

Bookface involves strategically lining up your face or another body part alongside a book cover that features a matching body part so that there appears a melding of life and art. Librarians and other book lovers post these photos weekly on visual apps like Instagram, using the caption #BookfaceFriday. The minitrend is giving a boost to the digital presence of institutions that are, by definition, purveyors of analog information.

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This is awesome!

“Junior High School Teachers Transform Old Lockers into Literary Work of Art”

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For more accurate book nerd charts, click here.

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Wimberley Village Library Receives $2,000 in Disaster Relief Funds

After severe storm and rain damage in the Central Texas area, TLA is donating $2,000 in disaster relief funds to Wimberley Village Library in Wimberley, TX. There was extensive flooding in the City of Wimberley and along the banks of the Blanco River including parts of San Marcos. Along with heartbreaking loss of life and property, thousands of family photographs and documents were dispersed throughout the area. Immediately after the flood waters receded, the Library became the donation center for recovered photographs and documents. Read the full release.

Was your library affected by the severe weather? Please let us know. 

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Is Reading the New Therapy?

“In a secular age, I suspect that reading fiction is one of the few remaining paths to transcendence, that elusive state in which the distance between the self and the universe shrinks.”

Ceridwen Dovey writes on the many forms of bibliotherapy.

Illustration by Sarah Mazzetti

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Fort Bend County Libraries' University Branch (Sugar Land) hosted its first week-long "Teddy-Bear Camp". Seventy-two children registered and brought a teddy bear or toy to the library for adventures like field trips and story time. They even learned how to look up books!

Explore what libraries in Texas are doing this summer. Look at photos and videos in our Cool Stuff Initiative board on Pinterest, including activities, programs, and events from school, public, academic, and special libraries. 

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Good writers not only have read widely and deeply, but they continue to do so—not in order to be better writers, but because for them the act of reading is as inseparable from living as writing is.

Carl Phillips (via poetsorg)

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Nimoy reads.

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The Texas Book Festival recently awarded the Hillsboro City Library a collections enhancement grant in the amount of $2,493.86. The grant will be used to purchase recommended books from reading lists sponsored by various committees and round tables of the Texas Library Association, including bilingual and multicultural books.

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Dear Librarian…

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Kids love to read.