Boerne TX — The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) recently awarded funding to the Patrick Heath Public Library under its Tex-Treasures Grant program. The library will use the $38,717 award to provide access to even more of Boerne’s history with the digitization of The Boerne Star issues dated from 1994 to 2010. The digitized pages will be available globally through the Portal to Texas History, where the issues from 1940 to 1986 can already be read, thanks in part to TSLAC. The 1987 to 1993 issues are currently being scanned and updated daily.
When the library conducted a customer satisfaction survey in 2022, nearly a quarter of respondents said they used the library to explore local and genealogical history, and several made remarks about preserving and making available online the documents in the local history section. That was the primary impetus to pursue this grant.
Adult Services librarian Robin Stauber, who manages the library’s Dietert Historical Archives, is especially anxious to access the expanded offering.
