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Houston Public Library, the Glossary

Houston Public Library is the public library system serving Houston, Texas, United States.^[1]

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1904 establishments in Texas
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Education in Houston
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Acres Homes, Houston

Acres Homes is a neighborhood located in northwest Houston, Texas.

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Adele Briscoe Looscan

Adele Briscoe Looscan (February 5, 1848 – November 23, 1935) was a club organizer, writer, and historical preservationist from Harris County, Texas.

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African American Library at the Gregory School

African American Library at the Gregory School is a branch of the Houston Public Library (HPL) in the Fourth Ward, Houston.

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Alief, Houston

Alief is a working-class suburb in Southwest Harris County, Texas, United States.

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American City Business Journals

American City Business Journals, Inc. (ACBJ) is an American newspaper publisher based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie (November 25, 1835August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist.

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Arizona Daily Star

The Arizona Daily Star is an American daily newspaper based in Tucson, Arizona, and owned by Lee Enterprises.

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Blue Ridge, Houston

Blue Ridge is a community in Houston, Texas, United States that used to be a distinct unincorporated area in northeast Fort Bend County.

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Braeswood Place, Houston

Braeswood Place is a group of subdivisions in Harris County, Texas, United States.

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Brays Oaks, Houston

Brays Oaks, formerly known as Fondren Southwest, is an area in Southwest Houston, Texas, United States.

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Children's Museum of Houston

Children's Museum Houston (CMH) is a nonprofit children's museum in the Museum District of Houston, Texas.

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Circulating library

A circulating library (also known as lending libraries and rental libraries) lent books to subscribers, and was first and foremost a business venture.

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Clear Lake City (Greater Houston)

Clear Lake City is a master-planned community located in southeast Harris County, Texas, within the Bay Area of Greater Houston.

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A community centre, community center, or community hall is a public location where members of a community gather for group activities, social support, public information, and other purposes.

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Debate

Debate is a process that involves formal discourse, discussion, and oral addresses on a particular topic or collection of topics, often with a moderator and an audience.

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Denver Harbor, Houston

Denver Harbor is a historic community located in eastern Houston, Texas, United States near the Houston Ship Channel.

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Desegregation in the United States

Desegregation is the process of ending the separation of two groups, usually referring to races.

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Downtown is the largest central business district in the city of Houston and the largest in the state of Texas, located near the geographic center of the metropolitan area at the confluence of Interstate 10, Interstate 45, and Interstate 69.

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Ernest O. Smith

Ernest O. Smith (1885–1945) was an educator, library trustee, and union organizer in Houston, Texas.

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Examiner Newspaper Group

The Examiner Newspaper Group, Inc. consists of a set of four community newspapers owned by the Hearst Corporation, doing business as Houston Community Newspapers (HCN).

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Fifth Ward, Houston

The Fifth Ward is a community of Houston, Texas, United States, derived from a historical political district (ward), Retrieved on June 25, 2009.

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Harris County Public Library

Harris County Public Library (HCPL) is a public library system serving Harris County, Texas, United States. Houston Public Library and Harris County Public Library are culture of Houston and education in Houston.

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Heights Neighborhood Library

Heights Neighborhood Library is a public library facility in the Houston Heights area of Houston, Texas. Houston Public Library and Heights Neighborhood Library are libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas and National Register of Historic Places in Houston.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.

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Houston Chronicle

The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States.

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Houston Gardens, Houston

Houston/Trinity Gardens is an African-American neighborhood in Houston.

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Houston Heights

Houston Heights (often referred to simply as "The Heights") is a community in northwest-central Houston, Texas, United States.

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Houston Museum District

The Houston Museum District is an association of 19 museums, galleries, cultural centers and community organizations located in Houston, Texas, dedicated to promoting art, science, history and culture.

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Houston Press

The Houston Press is an online newspaper published in Houston, Texas, United States.

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Houston Public Library

Houston Public Library is the public library system serving Houston, Texas, United States. Houston Public Library and Houston Public Library are 1904 establishments in Texas, Andrew Carnegie, Carnegie libraries in Texas, culture of Houston, education in Houston, libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas, libraries participating in TexShare, National Register of Historic Places in Houston and public libraries in Texas.

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Hurricane Harvey

Hurricane Harvey was a devastating Category 4 hurricane that made landfall on Texas and Louisiana in August 2017, causing catastrophic flooding and more than 100 deaths.

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Jesse H. Jones

Jesse Holman Jones (April 5, 1874June 1, 1956) was an American Democratic politician and entrepreneur from Houston, Texas.

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John P. McGovern

John P. McGovern (June 2, 1921 - May 31, 2007) was an American allergist, investor and philanthropist.

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Julia Ideson

Julia Bedford Ideson (1880–1945) was the first head librarian of the Houston Public Library in Houston, Texas.

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Julia Ideson Building

The Julia Ideson Building is a Houston Public Library facility in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States. Houston Public Library and Julia Ideson Building are libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas and National Register of Historic Places in Houston.

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Kashmere Gardens, Houston

Kashmere Gardens is a historically African-American neighborhood in the northern 610 Loop area in Houston, Texas, United States.

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Kingwood, Houston

Kingwood is a master-planned community located in northeast Houston, Texas, United States.

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Librarian

A librarian is a person who works professionally in a library providing access to information, and sometimes social or technical programming, or instruction on information literacy to users.

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List of mayors of Houston

The following is a list of people who have served as mayor of the city of Houston in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Lyceum

The lyceum is a category of educational institution defined within the education system of many countries, mainly in Europe.

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Magnolia Park, Houston

Magnolia Park is an area of the East End,"." East End Management District.

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Memorial, Houston

The Memorial area of Houston, Texas is located west of Downtown, northwest of Uptown, and south of Spring Branch.

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Meyerland, Houston

Meyerland is a community in southwest Houston, Texas, outside of the 610 Loop and inside Beltway 8.

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Near Northside, Houston

Near Northside is a historic neighborhood located in Northside, Houston, Texas.

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Neartown Houston

Montrose is an area located in west-central Houston, Texas, United States and is one of the city's major cultural areas.

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Northside, Houston

The Northside is a district of Houston, Texas, United States.

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Oak Forest, Houston

Oak Forest is a large residential community in northwest Houston, Texas, United States.

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Palm Center (Houston)

The Palm Center Business and Technology Center,Gonzales, J.R. "." Houston Chronicle.

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Park Place, Houston

Park Place is a subdivision located in Houston, Texas, United States.

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Pecan Park, Houston

Pecan Park is a neighborhood in Houston, Texas.

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Philanthropy

Philanthropy is a form of altruism that consists of "private initiatives for the public good, focusing on quality of life".

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Pleasantville, Houston

Pleasantville is a neighborhood located in Houston, Texas, United States.

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Public library

A public library is a library, most often a lending library, that is accessible by the general public and is usually funded from public sources, such as taxes.

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Rice University

Rice University, formally William Marsh Rice University, is a private research university in Houston, Texas, United States.

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River Oaks Baptist School

River Oaks Baptist School is a private, Christian, co-educational day school for students in preschool, lower school and middle school located in Houston, Texas.

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River Oaks, Houston

River Oaks is a residential community located in the center of Houston, Texas, United States.

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Roy Hofheinz

Roy Mark Hofheinz (April 10, 1912 – November 22, 1982), popularly known as Judge Hofheinz or "The Judge", was a Texas state representative from 1935 to 1937 (44th legislature), county judge of Harris County, Texas from 1936 to 1944, and mayor of the city of Houston from 1953 to 1956.

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Scenic Woods, Houston

Scenic Woods is a neighborhood located in northeast Houston, Texas, United States,"." Houston Chronicle.

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Second Ward, Houston

Second Ward (also known as Segundo Barrio, Spanish for "second neighborhood", or Segundo in short;Garza p. 15. historically Das Zweiter in German) is a historical political district ward in the East End community in Houston, Texas.

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Separate but equal

Separate but equal was a legal doctrine in United States constitutional law, according to which racial segregation did not necessarily violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which nominally guaranteed "equal protection" under the law to all people.

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Shannon Walker

Shannon Walker (born June 4, 1965) is an American physicist and a NASA astronaut selected in 2004.

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Sharpstown, Houston

Sharpstown is a master-planned community in the Southwest Management District (formerly Greater Sharpstown), Southwest Houston, Texas.

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Smith v. Allwright

Smith v. Allwright, 321 U.S. 649 (1944), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court with regard to voting rights and, by extension, racial desegregation.

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South Park, Houston

South Park is a broad post-World War II development in the south-central area of Houston, Texas, a few miles south of MacGregor Park and directly south of the 610 Loop.

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Southbelt/Ellington, Houston

South Belt/Ellington is a neighborhood located around 20 miles southeast of Downtown Houston, Texas.

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Spring Branch, Houston

Spring Branch is a district in west-northwest Harris County, Texas, United States, roughly bordered by Tanner Road and Hempstead Road to the north, Beltway 8 to the west, Interstate 10 to the south, and the 610 Loop to the east; it is almost entirely within the city of Houston.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_Public_Library

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Houston Public Library, the Glossary

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See also

1904 establishments in Texas

Carnegie libraries in Texas

Education in Houston

Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas

Libraries participating in TexShare

Public libraries in Texas

References