eShelf & Research

Use library tools and resources to discover new books and materials or do research online.

TexShare Databases Try these databases filled with magazine articles, encyclopedia entries, and other materials to help you discover more on any subject, from general interest to business, hobbies, and more. Please see your librarian for a username and password.

Start Your Next Read Here Looking for something new to read? Visit these sites for best sellers, award winning books, and important books lists. Interested in the latest news headlines? We'll get you pointed in the right direction.

Selected Sites This collection of recommended Web sites will makes it easy to find good information on the Internet on a wide variety of topics. Browse or search.

Community Organizations Search our database of local community groups or add your own non-profit community organization (subject to staff approval).

Best Sellers, Award Winning Books, Book Lists

Looking for book recommendations? News about the latest bestsellers? Want to peruse the latest news headlines? Then you've come to the right place!

Current Bestsellers

Award winning and Definitive Book Lists:

From the Lists of Bests site: a compendium of book lists, including award-winners:

Not to be missed:

From Good Reads

From the New York Times, Barnes & Noble, and Powell's City of Books

The latest news about books from The New York Times as well as weekly book reviews.
Check out daily book reviews from Powell's City of Books.
Read up on what NPR has to say about the latest books and interesting authors.

News and Newspapers

Selected Sites

Reference Desk: Organized resource of websites that cover a conglomeration of million of pages on the Internet. A must have resource.

Texas Records and Information Locator (TRAIL): TRAIL searches and locates information from over 180 Texas state agency web servers.

The Handbook of Texas Online: The Handbook of Texas Online is a multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association and the General Libraries at UT Austin.

Texas Online: The official website for the Great State of Texas and provides instant access to almost 800 state and local government services.

Library of Texas: Immediately start searching multiple Texas library catalogs and other knowledge collections in one sitting.

Portal to Texas History: A gateway to rare, historical, and primary source materials from or about Texas. A unified online access to Texas' historical documents and images for use by teachers, students, historians, genealogists, and other researchers.

TexShare Databases

TexShare Databases Try these databases filled with magazine articles, encyclopedia entries, and other materials to help you discover more on any subject, from general interest to business, hobbies, and more. Please see your librarian for a username and password.

TexShare Databases Info and Detail

TexShare Databases Try these databases filled with magazine articles, encyclopedia entries, and other materials to help you discover more on any subject, from general interest to business, hobbies, and more.

Free Audio and E-books Books

Public domain electronic titles. Over 50,000 titles. No charges for these audio books and e-books

Free Ebooks - Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg offers over 54,000 free eBooks: Choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, especially older works for which copyright has expired. We digitized and diligently proofread them with the help of thousands of volunteers.

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