Photograph of the Madison County Library sign in the mostly empty and wet parking lot of the building. A blue pick-up truck is parked outside the library. The one story building has a glass and white trimmed entrance with a white inlay / shutters / sign on either side of the entrance.

Photograph of Lena Armstrong behind a library desk. Armstrong was Library Director at Belton Public Library. On the desk are a date stamp and ink pad, stack of library books, card catalog drawers, and miscellaneous office supplies. Behind the woman is a mostly empty double bookcase with a framed piece artwork on top. A print of a tiger is pinned to the right wall.

Photograph of a group of eleven unidentified children sitting and reading books at a large table in room at the library. One young girl looks at the camera. The room is filled with bookshelves, and the back wall has a window and door that lead to another room of the library.

Photograph of an unidentified man reading a small booklet in his hands. He sits at a library desk covered with papers and backed by a large research book set. Behind him are library shelves, an unidentified person standing at a piece of furniture and windows looking outside to another multi-story building and sky.

Photograph of a black screen with white text stating "narration by Cactus Pryor." Believed to be from the video recording The Texas Library System: Coming of Age.

Photograph of a black screen with white text stating "Produced for the Central Texas Library System through a grant from the Texas Library Systems Act." Believed to be from the video recording The Texas Library System: Coming of Age.

Photograph of a black screen with white text stating "Directed by Reagan Bradshaw." Believed to be from the video recording The Texas Library System: Coming of Age.

Photograph of an unidentified young girl carrying a stack of six books and walking next to an unidentifiable female who is gesturing with her right hand. The out-of-focus background shows some chairs, a globe, and short bookshelves with framed artwork on the top.

Photograph of two unidentified women standing in a library; one women is flipping through a book in her hands, and the other woman is reaching for a book among multiple stacks of books on a counter. Behind the women is an interior wall with two curtained windows, and the remainder of the room is filled with many tables with chairs and tall and short bookshelves.

Photograph of an unidentified woman looking through a card catalog drawer on a counter with note cards and an illegible sign sitting on top. A man holding a stack of books under his arm looks over her shoulder.

Photograph of an unidentified man speaking across a desk covered with stacks of books, papers, and miscellaneous objects to an unidentified woman holding a stack of books. Behind them the wood panelled room is filled with bookshelves. A piece of framed landscape artwork is sitting across the top of two bookshelves in the right of the frame.

Photograph of two young boys playing with stereoscopes under a mobile of caricatures. Against the back wall is a card catalog topped with two pieces of framed artwork, another stereoscope, and some miscellaneous objects one is labeled with an illegible sign and a 24 cents sign. The left side of the frame shows a partial view of a sign and bookshelf.

Photograph of two women on either side of a card catalog with a box of bookmarks on top. The woman on the right, holding a bookmark, is Jean Schmaus, ILL Librarian at Austin Public Library. Behind them are rows of tables and chairs and rows of bookshelves with signs or displayed books.

Photograph of a library's Cassette Circulation display including some Shakespeare works: Macbeth and Henry V and She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith. The behind the display is a man reading a book on a couch beside a wall of bookshelves.

Photograph of three unidentified women in various activities in a reference library room with desks, tables, and chairs. One woman is typing a notecard for a card catalog. One woman is answering a phone from a desk covered in papers, binders, office supplies, and cigarettes. One woman is sitting at a table with piles of books and materials. The two back walls are lined with bookshelves, and the left bookshelf is filled with books of matching bindings.

Photograph of two unidentified women sitting together at a desk sorting through newspaper clippings. Another unidentified woman stands at the desk holding a small box. A window air conditioner unit sits in the back right window, and the remaining cubicle desk spaces are covered with office supplies, stacks of books, and some framed artwork. The woman on the far right is Jean Schmaus, ILL Librarian at Austin Public Library.

Photograph of an unidentified woman removing cards from a card catalog drawer while standing at a counter with stack of books and a phone. Another unidentified woman is sitting at a lower counter to the left. Behind them are short bookshelves with the clear black backs of other bookshelves extending above.

Photograph of two women sorting through papers at a desk in an office space filled with metal shelves. The woman on the right, Doris Clark, who is the Austin Public Library Overdues Supervisor, is standing and sorting through a stack of folded papers (possibly newspapers), and an unidentified woman is sitting at the desk sorting through an open manila file folder. On the desk are several boxes and stacks of notecards, pencils, and other office materials. A few unidentified people can be seen sitting and working at the back of the room.

Photograph of Celia Carroll standing and reading/showing a children's picture book to three unidentifiable women sitting at a table. The table has stack of papers and materials including children's literature. Behind them is a paneled wall and tall cabinet. Carroll was Austin Public Library's Children's Coordinator.

Photograph of Virginia Kuse, Data Processing Supervisor at Austin Public Library, showing a card from a card catalog drawer while holding a stack of cards in her hand. An unidentified man looks at the card from his seat at a desk typing machine. Behind them is a wall covered with a card catalog system and shelves of office supplies and boxes.

Photograph of David Earl Hall sitting at a desk in his office. The desk is covered with stacks of letters, newspapers, papers, etc. On the walls behind him hang a large framed artwork and an illegible, possible, certificate or diploma. Hall was the Director of Austin Public Library from the 1970s to 1991.

Photograph of four women sitting at two tables in a corner between a wall of bookshelves and a wall of window blinds. Three of the women have notepads, so they appear to be attending a meeting with the speaker out of frame.

Photograph of two unidentified women in a discussion with one of the women flipping through a book at a counter. A few large books, including The Columbia Encyclopedia, sit on top of the counter. The bookshelf behind them to the left is labeled as 800 Literature (Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric materials). The right wall is covered by bookshelves holding books and periodicals and a file cabinet with an illegible Clipping Index box on top.

Photograph of three unidentified children standing across a long counter from an unidentified woman holding a stack of books in each hand. The background of the photograph shows two vending machines near the main entrance to the building and a door, library cart, bookshelves, and signs behind the woman at the counter. A water tower and another building can be seen through the glass of the entrance way.