Please fill out the TexShare Annual Report Survey. The survey details library membership program participation and allows libraries the opportunity to offer their evaluation of these library services while also providing contact information for each program.

To Texas Librarians –

The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) is pleased to announce the selection of the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) Texas Group Catalog and WorldCat Navigator solution as the future platform for statewide interlibrary loan in Texas public libraries.

“The Texas Group Catalog and WorldCat Navigator platform offers a customized, comprehensive solution that will be easy to implement in all sizes of libraries,” says Director and Librarian Peggy Rudd. “We look forward to working with OCLC and the library community to improve library services to Texans.”

For more information, go the Resource Sharing Projects blog

Click here to read facts about the process

The TexTreasures grant program provides assistance and encouragement to libraries to provide access to their special or unique holdings, and to make information about these holdings available to all Texans. Applicants may propose projects designed to increase accessibility through a wide range of activities such as cataloging, indexing, or digitizing local materials with statewide significance.

An estimated total of up to $150,000 is available for TexTreasures Grants, subject to approval by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. The maximum award for FY 2011 is $20,000 for a single institution and $25,000 for collaborative grant projects.

Read the FY2011 grant program guidelines (Word file)
Download a MS Word file reader, if needed.

Apply using the Grant Management System (GMS).
Read the Grant Management System Manual for more details about the
GMS service. (Word file)

Click here to reach the TexTreasures page containing more information.

New reports available now updated with the latest updates from FY2009.
Click here for the TPS reports.

The Texas State Library and Archives Commission has proposed new administrative rules governing TexShare membership, and they are posted in the Texas Register for a thirty-day comment period. To review the rules, please see the Texas Register at http://www.sos.state.tx.us/texreg/sos/PROPOSED/13.CULTURAL%20RESOURCES.html#171. Please send your official comments to me by mail, email, or FAX at my contact information below. We are especially interested in your thoughts about whether TexShare membership should continue to be limited to nonprofit institutions or whether for-profit organizations should be allowed to apply for membership.

For background information, please click on this link to read more:

TSLAC awarded the TexTreasures grants of up to $25,000 each to recipients for
fiscal year 2010. Internet access will allow more people in Texas to examine and
enjoy these collections that were previously available on-site only. Read about the exciting projects that have been funded here, or download the pdf of the press release.

To all TExpress participants (courier participants within the state of Texas ONLY):

The annual full rate for TExpress courier service for FY10 (July, 2009 - August, 2010)

5 - day service $4,500 - *$900 subsidy = $3,600 library's cost
3 - day service $3,075 - *$540 subsidy = $2,535 library's cost
2 - day service $2,425 - *$360 subsidy = $2,065 library's cost

*The Texas State Library and Archives Commission subsidy is $900 annually for 5-day service, $540 annually for 3-day and $360 annually for 2-day service.

Amigos works diligently with our courier partner to hold costs down; however the recent rise in fuel costs necessitated this increase.