About the Harris County Public Library Digital Archive
About the Harris County Public Library Digital Archive
The Harris County Public Library Digital Archive is a collaborative project between the Harris County Public Library and the Harris County Archives. In 2009, Sarah Jackson, the County Archivist, started a project to celebrate the library system's 90th anniversary. Her notes and research, including a map of the library stations and bookmobile stops from 1921 to 1939, documented the library system's early years.
In 2019, the library created a digitization project unit specifically to collect and highlight stories for the entire system and each of the 26 branch locations across Harris County. Many of HCPL's current branches are connected to those early library stations and bookmobile stops, from Tomball to Seabrook, Katy to Humble.
Throughout 2021, the Digital Archive published exhibits celebrating each of our branches as part of HCPL's Centennial celebrations. For the project's second phase, the Digital Archive will focus on highlighting stories of former branches and their communities. These stories demonstrate how library service has changed over the 20th century and the considerable impact of annexation and demographic changes.
Do you have a story to share or a topic you'd like to know more about? We'd love to hear from you. Contact the HCPL Digital Archive team at digitization@hcpl.net.
The Harris County Public Library Digital Archive is a collaborative project between the Harris County Public Library and the Harris County Archives. In 2009, Sarah Jackson, the County Archivist, started a project to celebrate the library system's 90th anniversary. Her notes and research, including a map of the library stations and bookmobile stops from 1921 to 1939, documented the library system's early years.
In 2019, the library created a digitization project unit specifically to collect and highlight stories for the entire system and each of the 26 branch locations across Harris County. Many of HCPL's current branches are connected to those early library stations and bookmobile stops, from Tomball to Seabrook, Katy to Humble.
Throughout 2021, the Digital Archive published exhibits celebrating each of our branches as part of HCPL's Centennial celebrations. For the project's second phase, the Digital Archive will focus on highlighting stories of former branches and their communities. These stories demonstrate how library service has changed over the 20th century and the considerable impact of annexation and demographic changes.
Do you have a story to share or a topic you'd like to know more about? We'd love to hear from you. Contact the HCPL Digital Archive team at digitization@hcpl.net.