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Harris County Public Library Records CR57 (1920 – 2014, Bulk: 1920 - 2000) Harris County Archives Houston, Texas Finding Aid Harris County Public Library Records CR57 (1920 – 2014, Bulk: 1920 - 2000) Size: 31 cubic feet, 16 items Accession Numbers: 2007.005, Restrictions on Access: None 2009.003, 2015.016, 2016.003, Restrictions on Use: None 2016.004, 2017.001, 2017.003 Acquisition: Harris County Public Processed by: AnnElise Golden 2008; Library, 2007, 2009, 2015, 2016, 2017. Sarah Canby Jackson, 2015, 2021; Terrin Rivera 2019 – 2021. Citation: [Identification of Item], Harris County Public Library Records, Harris County Archives, Houston, Texas. Agency History: In the fall of 1920 a campaign for library services began for rural Harris County. Under the direction of attorney Arthur B. Dawes with assistance from the Dairy Men’s Association, Julia Ideson, Librarian of the Houston Public Library, I.H. Mowery of Aldine, Miss Christine Baker of Barker, County Judge Chester H. Bryan, Edward F. Pickering, and Rev. Harris Masterson, a citizen’s committee circulated petitions for a county library throughout Harris County. Dawes presented the plans and petitions signed by Harris County qualified voters to the Commissioners Court and, with skepticism, the Commissioners Court ordered a budget of $6500.00 for the county library for a trial period of one year. If the library did not succeed, the Commissioners Court would not approve a budget for a second year. The Harris County Commissioners Court appointed its first librarian, Lucy Fuller, in May 1921, and with an office on the fifth floor of the Harris County Court House, the Harris County Public Library was in operation. At the close of the year, the HCPL had twenty- six library branches and book wagon stations in operation, 3,455 volumes in the library, and 19,574 volumes in circulation. The County Library was a success and for the 1922 budget year the Commissioners Court set aside $12,000 for the Harris County Public Library. Lucy Fuller served as Librarian until 1926. Ruth Underwood Pooley was County Librarian from 1926-1932 and under her supervision a dramatic increase in library branches, book wagon stations and circulation occurred even with a reduced budget during the Great Depression. Page 1 of 27 HARRIS COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY RECORDS – CR57 Elnora Edgar Buchanan was County Librarian from 1932-1939 and she too had to work with a limited budget. In 1935, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Library Project paid the salaries of the county library’s part time employees, which allowed HCPL to stay within the budget, buy new books, and pay to have books mended. During the Great Depression, HCPL provided books for the National Youth Administration (NYA) camp for girls in La Porte, to the Federal Transient Home (later Ranger Home) for men in South Houston, and the Santa Ana Home for transient boys in Pasadena. In 1937, the library received its first bookmobile, which offered library services to people living in areas with limited branches or book wagon stations. These stations varied from small collections of books in one-teacher schools to branches having several thousand books housed in separate buildings. From a peak of sixty stations throughout Harris County, the number of library locations changed from year to year due to the addition of community libraries, consolidation of rural schools, the annexation of communities by the city of Houston and schools by the Houston Independent School District. The bookmobile service remained popular through World War II, allowing librarians to continue to reach large parts of the county while the library's budget was severely reduced. County Librarian Reba Anderson (1939-1945) served as the head of the Victory Book Campaign drive in Harris County, a national campaign to send millions of books to the U.S. armed forces. Library collections were placed at Ellington Field Hospital to serve the wounded men that were recovering there. County Librarian Bernice Snell (1945-1951) oversaw a consolidation of several of the smallest stations into formal branches as the library system continued to face budget troubles. The bookmobile service was continually popular, and in 1948 the first bookmobile was replaced with a new custom van that could hold 2,000 volumes. The 23-year tenure of County Librarian Mary Owensby (1951-1974) represented a period of great change for HCPL. During the 1950s, the Channelview, Spring Branch Memorial, and Jacinto City branches were opened. The City of Pasadena took over operations of the Pasadena Branch in 1953. The bookmobile added a second vehicle in 1954, and the circulation of books through the bookmobiles greatly surpassed the circulation at the individual branches. In 1963, the original Goose Creek Branch, which had come to be known as the Baytown Branch, separated from the County. As the County experienced rapid growth, new buildings were opened to better serve the communities surrounding Houston. The Highlands and Humble branches each received new buildings and new names: Stratford and Octavia Fields. The last of the original branch buildings from the 1920s, in the Fairbanks community, was torn down and replaced in 1971. On the 50th anniversary of the library's founding, Owensby commissioned a study on the library system with a projection for Harris County's future and how the library could meet the needs of the growing population outside the city of Houston. This study highlighted the need to expand service in the Cypress Creek, Clear Lake City, and Aldine areas. Page 2 of 27 HARRIS COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY RECORDS – CR57 Katherine "Kathy" Skinner Brown (1974-1979) was the first county librarian to receive the new title of Library Director when she took over from Owensby in 1974. During the 1970s, several bond issues passed for the creation of new libraries. Brown oversaw the opening of the Cypress Creek and Aldine branches and a new facility for the Freeman Memorial Library in Clear Lake City. By the end of her tenure, there were 17 established HCPL branches and two bookmobiles. Catherine "Cathy" S. Park took over as director in 1979 after previously working as the Branch Librarian at the Fairbanks branch and the Central Office. Bond issues continued to fund the construction of new branches through the 1980s, including the Bear Creek, Baldwin Boettcher, Evelyn Meador, High Meadows, Kingwood, and Northwest branches. Many of the new branches served communities that were previously only served through the bookmobile program. Several branches were renovated or rebuilt as well during this time. The 1990s saw continued growth, thanks largely to active Friends of the Library groups that worked with the library and the County Commissioners to fund construction. The Maud Marks, Parker Williams, and Atascocita branches all opened by 1996. After decades of continual issues with flooding and water damage, the Channelview and Woodforest branches were closed and replaced by the North Channel branch in 1994. Branches began adding computers for public use in the early 1990s, with Internet access in all branches by 1999. By the end of the 1990s, the branch system had extended to most of the communities served by the bookmobile program. The library had sought funding for several years to replace the aging vehicles, which needed extensive repair work to continue operating. Given the branch system's expansion and the high cost of a new vehicle, the bookmobile program ended in 1999. At the start of the new millennium, HCPL began partnering with other local systems to expand and open new branches. The Clear Lake City-County Freeman branch was expanded in partnership with the City of Houston. In partnership with North Harris County Montgomery Community College, a new branch was added to the system in Cy- Fair, and the Tomball library received a much-needed new building. When Park retired in 2006 after 26 years, she was the longest-serving director of the library and had overseen the library system's expansion from 17 to 26 branches. Director Rhoda Goldberg (2008-2013) served as Assistant Director under Cathy Park starting in the late 1970s. In 2007, she was named the Interim Library Director after the retirement of Park and then became the official Director in 2008. During her time as Director, Goldberg oversaw the Kingwood Branch's partnership with Houston Public Library. She led the system's recovery after flooding and winds from Hurricane Ike (2008) damaged several branches and led to the temporary closure of the Kingwood and Evelyn Meador branches. A new building for Kingwood opened in 2010, and in 2011, Evelyn Meador reopened in a state-of-the-art, environmentally green facility with funding assistance from the City of Seabrook. During the 2000s, the library started Page 3 of 27 HARRIS COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY RECORDS – CR57 collecting digital books and audiobooks to meet the increasing demand for virtual services. Since he started as Director in 2014, Edward Melton has expanded literacy and outreach services at the library, including technology labs at county community centers, a small collection on site at the Texas Medical Center Library and Harris County Law Library, a number of partnerships with local school districts to issue library cards and provide physical and digital materials to students, and the revival of a bookmobile program in 2017. After Hurricane Harvey heavily damaged four library branches in the fall of 2017, three branches and a temporary location were reopened within the year. In 2020, as the COVID-19 global pandemic forced the county to close its buildings and limit in-person contact, HCPL staff found innovative ways for the library to continue serving the public even as the buildings remained closed, which included the viral ad campaign of “Curbside Larry”. The Harris County Public Library currently serves the people of Harris County with twenty-six branches and two browsing locations.
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