Liberty, TX – Beginning June 3, the Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center (SHC) in Liberty, part of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC), will present Juneteenth, an exhibition by Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

On June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform enslaved Black Americans they had been freed under the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. This day came to be known as Juneteenth and is celebrated throughout the country as the day that marks freedom for all Black Americans

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Liberty, TX – The Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center (SHC), part of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC), will host its annual Family History Day for new and advanced genealogists on Saturday, May 31, 2025, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Presenters will explore the use of maps and land records for genealogical research.

Professional genealogist Teri E. Flack will teach attendees how to use maps to explore their ancestor’s lives and how to use property records to trace their family tree. TSLAC staff will share key map and land records available onli

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The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) is pleased to announce its Texas America250 programming in celebration of the United States Semiquincentennial on July 4, 2026, commemorating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Texans of all ages will be invited to join TSLAC’s statewide reading challenge and encouraged to visit their local libraries to view traveling exhibits on loan throughout 2026. These special exhibits highlight historically significant Texas Treasures from TSLAC’s collections. Programming throughout the year

 

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Liberty, TX – The SHC Quarterly Book Club will meet April 22 at the Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center (SHC) to discuss the novel, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a work of historical fiction featuring a central character who delivers library books to rural residents of Appalachia during the Depression. Join the group for this fun, free and informal gathering of readers from 6 – 7 p.m. No membership or registration required.

Featuring fictional works with a connection to the world of museum

 

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Austin, TX – The Texas Center for the Book, under the direction of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, is delighted to announce the winners of the 2024-2025 Letters About Literature Texas contest, a statewide competition sponsored by the Texas Library and Archives Foundation.

In Letters About Literature, students read a book, poem, short story or other written work and write a letter to an author—living or dead—explaining how his or her work changed their view of themselves or the world.

Hundreds of students entered from across the state, and the level of compe

Austin, TX – The Texas Library and Archives Foundation (TxLAF) is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2025 Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) Research Fellowship in Texas History. The fellowship’s stipend of $2,000 has been awarded to Dr. Sam W. Haynes.

Haynes directs the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies and serves as a professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). His research at TSLAC will enhance the online resource, Texas in Turmoil: Mapping Interethnic Violence, 1821-79, by contributing information gathered from the State Archives to the i

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Austin, TX – The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) has announced new and revised finding aids recently made available online, along with fresh uploads to the Texas Digital Archive, its repository of electronic items.
 

The State Archives preserves and documents the heritage and culture of Texas by identifying, collecting and making available for research the permanently valuable official records of Texas government, as well as other significant historical resources. Finding aids are written guides to archival records, including descriptive information and a

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Austin, TX – The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) is pleased to announce the 2025 Family Place Libraries™ Project Grant Recipients.

2025 Family Place Libraries™ Project Grant Recipients
Burnet County Library System
El Paso Public Library
Irving Public Library
Laredo Public Library
McAllen Public Library
Navasota Public Library
Lubbock Public Library
Schertz Public Library
Sergeant Fernando de la Rosa Memorial Library
Sherman Public Library

TSLAC initiated this project in 2015 to help public libraries address early learning with a goal of ensuring that all children e

 

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Austin, TX – Join the Texas Center for the Book on Monday, March 10 from 2 to 3 p.m. (CT) for #TXBookChat LIVE: Texas on This Day: 500 Years of History with author Gary Vliet. A conversation with Texas Center for the Book Coordinator Michele Chan Santos will be followed by an audience Q&A session and book signing opportunity.

 

Gary Vliet, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at The University of Texas at Austin. He grew up in Alberta, Canada, and studied and worked in California before joining the faculty of mechanical engineering at UT, where he taught for 35 years. 

 

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Austin, TX – Lone Star Libraries is a new quarterly series of articles and videos from the Texas Center of the Book at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission that showcases and celebrates exceptional libraries across Texas.

 

The first feature spotlights The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University in San Marcos. The Wittliff Collections are both an archive and a museum. The Collections celebrate the cultural heritage of Texas, the Southwest and Mexico, in nine galleries. Collections include materials related to literature, writing, photography, music, TV and