Hammered by $2.2 million in budget cuts, the Houston Public Library system this month will reduce its hours by 28 percent — closing most of its 42 branches on Saturdays — and trim expenditures for ...

The Freed-Montrose library re-opened on Monday morning and will continue operations until its relocation to the Montrose Collective. Mayor John Whitmire said he will be looking to work with the ...

Houston City Council approved $750,000 more for the about $5.2 million restoration of The African American Library at the Gregory School—located at 1300 Victor St. in Houston's Fourth Ward.

Houston Public Library has partnered with the Mayor’s Office for Adult Literacy and the CenterPoint Energy Foundation to create and distribute Lifesaver Literacy Kits, according to a Dec. 12 news ...

The Looscan Library, a location for NaNoWriMo participants to work during the challenge. Participants of NaNoWriMo in Houston could publish their completed novel as an e-book on the Houston library's ...

Houston’s Freed-Montrose Library will open next month at Montrose Collective, becoming the last major element of the mixed-use project that has transformed a busy block along Westheimer. Houston ...

Houston just opened a can of worms by asking us to help name the city's new library. The yet-to-be-named new library will serve the Westbury, Meyerland, Brays Oaks and Hiram Clarke areas and replace ...

HOUSTON — Complete with cozy chairs, friendly smiles and, of course, loads of books, Houston's library system has dozens of these little libraries tucked in neighborhoods all over the city.

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The City of Houston has omitted the Central Library in downtown as one of its designated cooling centers in the most recent declaration of a heat emergency. It was included in ...