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February is the month when the great, noble plans and resolutions made in January start to drift away.  We start the new year with great ideas and the best intentions.  Exercise more!  Eat better!  Get out of debt!  Get organized!

Houston, TX, February 7, 2020—Three area library systems, Harris County Public Library (HCPL), Pasadena Public Library (PPL), and Bellaire City Library (BCL) have entered into agreements to share resources which will allow each system’s library card holder

This February, Harris County Public Library is celebrating African American History Month with a special emphasis on the performing arts.

That odd sound you've been hearing for the last few weeks of 2019 is the collective sigh of relief from content creators across the land as they realize that the pressure to come up with new ideas (or at least new spins on old ones) is finally, if only temporarily, off. Why?

With a new year, comes the opportunity to start anew.  Perhaps that means a new job, but job hunting can be intimidating.  With most job applications being online these days, applying for a job can be quite daunting.

     According to the dictionary, a gift is “something given voluntarily without payment in return.” As a non-profit, libraries don’t charge for their services, but their gift giving goes way beyond paying $0 to read the newest James Patterson thriller.

Harris County Public Library is very excited to bring to you an exhibit of original fashion designs created by Houston Community College students for

Writing and drinking have quite a history together, so when we discovered Tim Federle's Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist, a self-described " SparkNotes with a liquor license", we were looking for a way to make it more " Public Library friendly".