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Enrollment.
Name of Institution. Location, Ownership. Date of Founding. President-- W . .
**Trinity University: San Antomnio; Presbyterlan: 1869; coed; Monroe G I I
Everett .. ...................................................1011 1,4271 9621
Tyler Commercial College: Tyler; private: 1898; coed; Jewell F. Spinks ..I 251 5001 5001
Tyler Jumnior College: Tyler. municipal. 1926. coed; Harley E. Jenkins 461 4671 135 207
University of Houston: Houston; municipal, 1927 as junior college. 1934 as
university; coed; E. E. Oberholtzer ..................................I 374110,7831 6.100 595
University of St. Thomas: Houston; independent junior; 1948; V J. Guinan ..
**University of San Antonio: San Antonio. (See Trinity Unilersity.) .
University of Texas: Austin; 1883: state; coed; T. S. Painter .......... 1,165 16.987 10.384 4.494
*University of Texas Medical Branch: Galveston; state; 1890: coed; vice- I
president. Dr Chauncey D. Leake................ ............ .....1 148 3641 ... .
*University of Texas School of Dentistry: Houston; state; 1905: coed; vice- I 76
president and dean. Frederick C Elliott .................... ......... I 471 1941 76
Victoria Junior College: Victoria; municipal; 1925; coed; T. A. Roach .... 221 1901 1501
Wayland College: Plainview; Baptist; 1909; coed; J. W. Marshall......... 381 5411 1511
ttWeatherford Junior College: Weatherford; Methodist, South; branch of i I
Southwestern University; 1869; coed; dean, L. B. Plummer .......... 15 2061 50
ttWestminster College: Tehuacana; Methodist, South; branch of South- o
western University; 1895; coed; dean, J. Caperton Pace .......... ....... . 13 120 49
West Texas State College: Canyon; state; 1910: coed; James P. Cornette.... 104 1,240 1,014 1,118
Wharton County Junior College: Wharton; county; 1946; coed; J. M. Hodges 27 321 26 132
Wiley College: Marshall; Methodist Episcopal; 1873; coed; Dr. J. S. Scott.... 33 5731 4271 265
*Branch of Umniversity of Texas. tBranches of Durham Business College, located in Houston, San
Antonio and Harlingen. Formerly Wichita Falls Junior College. IBranch of Agricultural and Mechanical
College of Texas. **Moved from Waxahachie in 1942; consolidated with University of San Antonio and
Westmoorland College. ttDaniel Baker College. Weatherford College and Westminster College are
branches of Southwestern University.City, County and
There were in Texas. at the end of 1948.
sixty-nine thx-supported city libraries, forty
tax-supported county libraries, forty-four siz-
able libraries in the state's senior colleges,
and torty-one libraries in junior colleges, ac-
cording to the Texas State Library. Some of
the public school systems of the state have
large libraries, but no attempt Is made to list
them in the tabulation below.
The oldest library in Texas is the Texas
State Library, established in 1839 in the pr-
riod of the Republic. It is maintained by leg-
islative appropriation, Is under the direction
of the Texas Library and Historical Commis-
sion (for which see p. 358), and is housed in
various parts of the Capitol, the State High-
way Building, and on the Austin State Hos-
pital grounds. It has approximately 225.000
volumes and over 2,000,000 manuscripts, in-
cluding many books, manuscripts and docu-
ments of great historical value.
The largest library in Texas and the sec-
ond largest in the South. is the Mirabeau B.
Lamar Library, which is the library of the
University of Texas. It has approximately
832,786 volumes. Among its many valuable
collections are (1) the Latin-American collec-
tion, (2) the Wrenn Library of first editions.
(3) the Southern collection, (4) the Texas col-
lection and (5) the Stark collection.
One of the outstanding recent events in
Texas library activities was the establishment
of a graduate School of Library Science at
the University of Texas. This is the only
library training school in the state operating
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Also of state-wide significance as the
grant by the General Education Board of New
York of funds tor the creation of the position
of supervisor of school libraries in the State
Department of Education. This has permitted
extensive work with public schools leading to
development of library facilities which will
meet the minimum requirements of the
Southern Association of Colleges and Second-
ary Schools.
Library Progress in Texas.
The past two years hae seen much prog-
ress in development of physical facilities for
Texas libraries which has been countered by
a rapidly decreasing supply of trained li-
brarians. "Higher salaries paid elsewhere
have taken from Texas many of Its most
capable librarians and the nation-wide short-
age of trained librarians combined with In-
adequate training facilities within the state
and low salary levels has made it impossible
for many institutions to obtain sufficient
trained personnel to operate at efficiency
levels," according to one of Texas' leading
library authorities.
Some of the additions to library facilities
follow.
Colleges and Universities.
New buildings at Hardin-Simmons Univer-
sity. San Angelo College. University of Hous-
ton.
Renovations and additions at Daniel Baker
College. East Texas State Teachers College.
McMurry College, Texas State College for
Women. University of Texas.
County Libraries.
New buildings or new quarters at Brazoria.
Denton, Ward, Winkler.
Renovations at Midland.
Public Libraries.
New buildings or new quarters at Blanco.
Canyon. Columbus, Denison. McKinney, Mer-
cedes. Mexia. Rosebud, H. M. Landa Memo-
rial Branch (San Antonio), Shamrock. Sunray.
Taylor.
Renovations at Houston. Beaumont.421
LIBRARIES.
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